Arvind Krishna Mehrotra author of An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English and professor of English at the Allahabad University; was nominated by novelist Amit Chaudhuri and Oxford lecturer of English Peter D McDonald. He is been described as a “Finest Poet in Any Language”. Mehrotra is one of three candidates in the fray for the most high profile post in British poetry.
He never considered English as a non-Indian language; it could be colonial but that doesn’t make less Indian.
Monday, May 18, 2009
a Bitter End
Today May 18th I read news about Prabhakaran’s death. (Unconfirmed Report as per news channel).
If I start to think about him; I had to recollect my 17 years back memories. I had Tamilian friend from Jaffna who was studying for BA in Cochin; I used to hear many stories about LTTE from her.
Years passed; today I am not overjoyed but feel sympathetic too not because of LTTE rebel movement has come to end but Sri Lankan Govt had a person or group to deal with for Tamil cause; that group or person is no more.
I started to think; whether our hands and consciousness were there in this bloody war which has a bitter end. The quarter century war has finally ended. I used to read many articles saying Prabhakaran was created by us to teach Sri Lankan President a lesson; for his disrespectful attitude towards India that time. He suited our needs in all possible ways. Later global politics changed; our priorities changed; our political view also changed. Sri Lankan’s are good in tactics. There was agreement between India and Sri Lanka. We sent peace keeping force to Sri Lanka; in retaliation LTTE killed our great beloved leader.
He became our enemy. We have a great patience. We waited for opportunity. We provided intelligence and logistics support. We trained them. We blocked all possible escapes routes because we know what his tactics are. Finally Sri Lankan government got him.
All Tamil people displaced; now they will settle some other parts of Sri Lanka not in their own home land.
If I start to think about him; I had to recollect my 17 years back memories. I had Tamilian friend from Jaffna who was studying for BA in Cochin; I used to hear many stories about LTTE from her.
Years passed; today I am not overjoyed but feel sympathetic too not because of LTTE rebel movement has come to end but Sri Lankan Govt had a person or group to deal with for Tamil cause; that group or person is no more.
I started to think; whether our hands and consciousness were there in this bloody war which has a bitter end. The quarter century war has finally ended. I used to read many articles saying Prabhakaran was created by us to teach Sri Lankan President a lesson; for his disrespectful attitude towards India that time. He suited our needs in all possible ways. Later global politics changed; our priorities changed; our political view also changed. Sri Lankan’s are good in tactics. There was agreement between India and Sri Lanka. We sent peace keeping force to Sri Lanka; in retaliation LTTE killed our great beloved leader.
He became our enemy. We have a great patience. We waited for opportunity. We provided intelligence and logistics support. We trained them. We blocked all possible escapes routes because we know what his tactics are. Finally Sri Lankan government got him.
All Tamil people displaced; now they will settle some other parts of Sri Lanka not in their own home land.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Slumdog Star on Street
Mumbai Municipal Corporation bulldozed the home of a "Slumdog Millionaire" child star. Azhar returned from the glitz of the Academy awards to the same plastic tent near the Bandra railway station. Film won eight Oscars and made nearly 325$ million in box office; but this star still live in slums and not benefited from it.
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