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While reading the history of Ottomans
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While reading the history of Ottomans

I visited Istanbul recently.  The images of the great city in its medieval context were very fascinating and evocative of many thoughts and reflections. More so when I was reading about the scenario of the fall of Constantinople. Sultan Mahomet 2 had seized the golden horn, which is a strategic landmass and the Constantinople fort...

Sand grains dancing under the sun
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Sand grains dancing under the sun

O day, arise! The atoms are dancing. Thanks to Him the universe is dancing.The souls are dancing, overcome with ecstasy. I’ll whisper in your ear where their dance is taking them. All the atoms in the air and in the desert know well, They seem insane. Every single atom, happy or miserable,Becomes enamoured of the...

Night Ride Across the Caucasus
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Night Ride Across the Caucasus

THERE ARE SO MANY CULTURES ACROSS THE GLOBE WHICH ARE VERY NATURAL AND HEARTWARMING. THE RICHNESS OF THEIR POETRY AND DANCE ENTWINED WITHIN THE THIER HUMAN SAGA, UNLESS WITNESSED, HUMAN LIFE IS NOT COMPLETE. The following song contains the subject of how close the people are with nature and how simple they kept their lives...

Nativity
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Nativity

It is very sad to see a native language (Mother tongue) so mercilessly and mindlessly bartered away. I am talking about the push for English medium instruction in place of Telugu in a south Indian province in India. Language is the vehicle of the culture and it carries the cultural collective unconscious, the trials and...

Kurai Ondrum illai
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Kurai Ondrum illai

This song is about the life of a Dalit during the pre-independence days. He was a great devotee of Lord Venkateshwara. He used to stand in front of the temple and indulge in the bhajans (chants of praise of God). One day, in a state of a trance, he goes into the temple chanting ‘Govinda,...

Kilkelly Ireland
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Kilkelly Ireland

‘’In the late 1970s or early 1980s Peter Jones discovered a collection of century-old letters in his parents’ attic in  The letters had been sent by his great-great-great-grandfather, Bryan Hunt, to his son, Jones’ great-great-grandfather, John Hunt, who had emigrated from Kilkelly, County Mayo, to the United States in 1855 and worked on the railroad. As Bryan was...

Seventh seal
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Seventh seal

Seventh seal Ingram Bergman, the legendary Swedish director, made an iconic movie SeventhSeal. The director explores the human condition in the backdrop of most horrific time in the medieval ages; the smell of death everywhere with Plague; poverty and blind belief in God adds further weight to those tragic times. The protagonist who is a...

DUNKIRK
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DUNKIRK

DUNKIRK I heard about the phenomenal rear-guard action Britain had performed during the second world war when I was in high school. I was fortunate to find a treasure trove of old Reader’s Digest magazines in the summer holidays. I read the whole set of Readers-digest magazines published over 25-30 years. I used to start...