Category: Literature
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Marali Mannige – An Epic Experience
Great novels often attempt to offer an experience close to life, but only a few elevate it into the realm of the larger than life. Marali Mannige (Return to Earth in English, Mannum Manitharum in Tamil), written by K. Shivarama Karanth and published in 1941, is one such work. Spanning…
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When Thunder Struck
How Akka Mahadevi’s Vachana freed me Six years ago, as I was approaching my 40s, I bought a house. My first house. Until 2019, I had never lived in a house owned by my family. It had became a lost luxury for three generations. Even on the day of registration…
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Book 4: Winter.
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages. Selected by — Harold Bloom “When I am tired, my way of reading returns, across three score years and some, to the pleasure of reading like a child again. When I was a child, each time I fell in love…
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Book 3: Autumn
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages. Selected by — Harold Bloom “The Obstacles to reading are, to some extent, merely a matter of fashion, or of inadequate examples set by parents for Children. What is read remains the pragmatic question, the difference that will make a…
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Book 2: Summer.
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages. Selected by — Harold Bloom “Anyone, of any age reading this volume will see quickly that I do not accept the category of Children’s Literature, which had some use and distinction a century ago, but now all too often is…
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Book 1: Spring
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages Selected by — Harold Bloom “If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and…
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