The mood for period drama struck some time last week and I satisfied it by watching the 1983 BBC miniseries version of Jane Eyre starring Timothy Dalton and Zelah Clarke. Independence is a pivotal theme in Jane Eyre and each reading/watching leads to thoughts on this. Bronte’s concern with this is clear right from the [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 28, 2008
On East Coast Road and melancholy seas
Last month, we took a drive down to East Coast Road. As a day trip. Yes, I am aware it sounds faintly ridiculous that we drove all the way from Bangalore to ECR and came back the same day but there were extenuating circumstances. It was one of those spur-of-the-moment urges to hit the road [...]
January 20, 2008
More on Gieve Patel and poetry
Some of us had dinner with Gieve when he was in town and the discussion, predictably, revolved around poetry. Poetry is always difficult to talk about — so much of it is subjective and it’s difficult to exactly pinpoint what the elements of a good poem are. Some say sound; the words should resonate when [...]
January 20, 2008
Gieve Patel and poetry with young people
Originally published in The Hindu.
“Poetry may be the most misunderstood of genres among the arts.” So says poet and plawright Gieve Patel in his introduction to Poetry with Young People (Sahitya Academi, Rs 100), an anthology introduced and edited by him. Featuring over a hundred poems written during Patel’s workshops at Rishi Valley School over [...]
January 10, 2008
Hiatus
The truth is I’m a little bored of blogging. I just don’t have the urge to say anything in this particular space any more. I thought reinvention would help but it hasn’t. Hopefully, this is temporary. So, until later.
UPDATE: Okay, that didn’t last long. About ten days.
