The Effulgence Within

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Two diametrically opposed roads can lead into one

In Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory (1940) the central issue is the antithesis between religion and materialism in Mexico. The two views are embodied by the priest and the lieutenant of police whose names are not given. The lieutenant is like the priest in his zeal, but for the secular order.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Sin and Sanctity as reflected in the manner of one's Life and Death

The story of Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory" has it's origin in the 1930's when the Mexican government sought to suppress and destroy the influence of the Catholic Church as it felt that feudalalism which prevailed for centuries there resulted in the concentration of power and riches among... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Shackled

Unable to write anything new, here's a redoing of one of my earlier poems. Kings, monarchs, my dear even emperors are all bound in unseen captivity! Exceptional conjurers they, the mystics, who have conquered their selves. Masters of their minds, Desires in whom no longer their elves are the real... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 1, 2013

A Wedding Gift for Elisa

(Somehow I just thought of giving this write as a repost). Born in London in 1552, Edmund Spenser had a short span of life of forty-six years. The most classical of his works was the epic poem Faerie Queene, due to which he was greatly admired by Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keats, Percy Bysshe... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Eurydice...Eurydice...Still Cries the Love of Orpheus

(An attempt at rewriting the famous Greek story in poetry) The greatest musician ever on earth, Orpheus, played his lyre with such masterly hand Wild beasts tamed, rivers stopped in their flow, trees and mountains followed as his band Nymphs swarmed, utterly charmed, but to Eurydice was he committed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 28, 2013

'Caesar' of Time

What governs life? It is the 'pursuit of happiness' says conventional wisdom, and happiness is feeling 'good', as the possession of good health, income and security. This, however, is confined to a "taker's definition". Happy people draw joy from benefits received from others while there are people... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Behind the World of Echoes (a repost)

In There Was a Boy, Wordsworth addresses not the boy who is now dead but the cliffs and islands of Lake Windermere that had outlasted him. The scene is widened to take the stars rising in the east and setting. It is in this context of the vast spaces of the universe and the inexorable movement of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 25, 2012

The Plague - A Monolithic Symbol of Pessimistic Humanism

Albert Camus’ novel is the story of an epidemic of plague that struck Oran, a city of Algeria on the Mediterranean coast. The citizens lived their monotonous mundane lives. When the death-rate rises the city is sealed off to check the contagion. Within the closed city, the pestilence takes a heavy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 24, 2012

When Fact and Fiction Overlap and Coalesce

The Theatre of the Absurd gained much popularity as a medium of dramatic expression, although indistinct in its conveyance but one of relief all right, of the inner conflicts of Man to which he found no answers, especially when the world was passing through a phase of transition – uprisings against... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Gatsby as the Hero of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

Gatsby's 'greatness' refers to that heroic quality about him that lifts him above the level of ordinary men. It is not just his material success, his capacity to live up to his desire for auccess, that distinguishes him. It is true that he has come a long way, materially speaking, from the shores of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Embarking on a journey in spiritual quest is fraught with the dangers of doubt, tension and anxiety, disbeliefs, misgivings, and a whole lot of uncertainties. Still, it is that one most integral aspect of life that humankind can rarely ignore or do without. Scientific minds are at loggerheads with what constitute religious truths; likewise, there are close-minded believers that give no credence to scientific facts. What I intend and invite you to discuss here is an intelligent amalgamation of the two seemingly diabolically opposite understandings: whether there exists an interrelationship that can help man to evolve and bloom like the perennial lily?

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