https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/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? hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/998801Tethered I was in a strange kingdom Of the obscure Somber A hearty welcome greeted me from the Recesses of a dank cave Cold and dark … ” Lemme outta here!” Oh no, said the voice “Remember The last November you came and I tried to show you your enclave?” “Yes, perforce I was wrapped in layers Of...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/998776Yesterday morn as I, startled, from my dream awoke, Wondering how’s it that my beloved’s at my side? Even as with cock’s-crow the sunlight broke Hesitantly, through the wide Open windows of her boudoir, falling On her disheveled hair, fell back I, recalling How she’d let go last night, undoing...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/998756In Absalom and Achitophel, one of the greatest of political satires, Dryden put the best of his skills in character-drawing. He declared that “the nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery”. And certainly, his finest raillery is best seen in the pictures if Zimri....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/998748In The Bhagavad-Gita, Song of the Divine, Krishna tells Arjuna the secret of works, Karma yoga, that despite my creating the fourfold social order ( Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and the Shudras, according to the nature of works each could best perform in keeping with their natural ability ),...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/998720Much of Indian literature in English evolved not surprisingly, alongside the strengthening of British imperialism in India. To trace its historic origins which goes back 200 years, was East India Company’s conclusive victory in the Battle of Plassey in 1757, also called a Great Betrayal story,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/998705G. M. Hopkins ' Carrion Comfort is a sonnet on desolation and the dark night of his soul. The poem is probably a record of a terrifying dream sequence that Hopkins experienced when he was in the throes of depression during 1884 - 85. He sees himself engaged in a seemingly mortal battle with...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/998655There is a season to this ripening the way sap of tree rises to fulfill fruit of the topmost branch or the motion of jasmine climbing trellises to show off a single blossom at new moon tide. In my garden the bamboos arch over patch of grass, river stones upturned earth. Alone where weeds. grow...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/998599“She Walks in Beauty” is the celebration of an unmarried woman’s outward physical grace and her inner moral purity. Scholars believe that ‘ She Walks in Beauty ‘ was written when the poet met his first cousin, Mrs. Anne Beatrix Wilmont. The poem describes a woman’s beauty at length as the poet...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/998566I take great pleasure in sharing one of Dryden’s note I contributed to Grade Saver,and published in this standard Study Guide that help students of higher English classes in the English and some Non english-speaking countries across the world. Enjoy … The heroic poem was the species that summed...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/998523The historical setting of Absalom and Achitophel was the arrest of the Earl of Shaftesbury in 1681 on a charge of high treason for.conspiring the death of the King and the subversion of the government. Charles II had no Legitimate children so that the heir the the throne was a Roman Catholic,...