Literature Entropy | 24 Feb 2010
Literature Nobel laureate Isacc Bashevis Singer -(1902 -1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement. Singer wrote autobiographical and fantasy tales for children which are deeply rooted in the lost cultural tradition of his native Poland. The stories he [...]
I return to Wislawa Szymborska once again.. for her simple yet profound words..”My apologies to great questions for small answers.” This poem like all her poems can be interpreted on several levels but what can be felt especially strongly is the universally human meaning, here having both an existential and a deeply ethical dimension. A [...]
Books &Life Entropy | 06 Feb 2010
All that matters is Love & Work.- Freud I usually refrain from reading books about alleged business Management and autobiographies of success stories. Most of them are self styled, self congratulatory, recipe manuals packaged with toxic doses of marketing. Nevertheless, instinctively I bought Simply Fly -A Deccan Odyssey by Captain Gopinath which is refreshing, unpretentious, [...]