Posted by Japinder Gill in Musings, Poems and Songs, Today's Find on 25. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Pete Seeger is my big find of the day! I had given the link to his We Shall Overcome in my previous post. I had listened to that particular song before, many times. But today, I also listened to other songs of his. And oh, what a great singer! All that I have done today [...]
I had wondered in my previous post about the naive idealism of those who write such songs as ‘Pyaar ki Ganga Bahe.’ I suddenly remembered one song that did manage to unite a lot of people and inspire them to bring change. ‘We Shall Overcome.’ Our much motivational ‘Hum Honge Kamyaab’ is an adaptation of [...]
Posted by Japinder Gill in Vocabulary on 24. Aug, 2010 | No Comments
This is just to record my first observation of the verb form ‘intuit’ of the word ‘intuition.’ Plutarch’s Greek heroes had been dead for at least 300 years by the time he wrote their lives (circa 100 A.D.). Plutarch therefore had to rely on old manuscripts, many of which are no longer available. But even [...]
Posted by Japinder Gill in Blog on 23. Aug, 2010 | 4 Comments
I was a little girl, about six-seven years old, when this song used to come on Doordarshan. One of the scenes of its video featured Jackie Shroff with a little baby in his arm and some time later, a cute little girl used to be shown. I used to think that girl resembled very much [...]
Posted by Japinder Gill in Books on 18. Aug, 2010 | 6 Comments
Presented below is an excerpt from Vikram Seth’s novel A Suitable Boy. Background of the excerpt: Amit Chatterjee is a character of this novel who is modelled on Seth himself. At the time in which the novel is set, like Seth, Amit has published a book of poems which has been critically acclaimed in the [...]
Posted by Japinder Gill in My writing career, Phases of Life on 13. Aug, 2010 | 3 Comments
I slept just two hours ago, sleep quite overpowering my tired body which had slept less than two hours the day before and had been on the run throughout the day, and I was sure of a long, peaceful sleep in which the mind goes blank and feels immersed in a peaceful blackness. I have [...]
