Eternally Yours: Tales from Shakespeare

Eternally Yours: Tales from Shakespeare: Book Review Tales from Shakespeare Shakespeare the great story teller of all and this book is just an introduction to him. The boo...

Tales from Shakespeare

Book Review

Tales from Shakespeare

Shakespeare the great story teller of all and this book is just an introduction to him. The book is the collection of best Shakespeare stories and these stories are presented in such a way that even children can understand the narration. Simply it reminds us of my School days when we use to read stories on our English text books. I recommend this book for children who love reading stories and to those people who don't want to read stories with 300 pages or more then 30 chapters. Even if you are regular reader I would suggest this as it refreshes all that superb tales, you can consider it as SALAD WITH YOUR MAIN COURSE

-Aj

Patrick Fernando

About Patrick Fernando

Patrick Fernando is considered to be the major force and, of course, the most significant voice in Sri Lankan poetry. It may seem incompatible with his profession as a tax man and a revenue specialist all his life; it is also astonishing. However, genius works and expresses itself in mysterious ways as it did in J. P. Fernando and as it does in countless others here and there. Son of the sea, groomed well in western classical lore and literature, keenly and resourcefully interested in teasing social and theological questions, Fernando frequently wrote on them for reputed journals. He had an eye and mind’s eyes and spirit wide-open and receptive to the luxuriant growth of nature in her full bloom and beauty and an enthusiastic and vibrant participator in its dramatic performance, Fernando’s poetry is a living and enduring response to this all. He had an envious command not only over Sinhalese and English but also over Greek and Latin and he was beloved to them. His passion for birds and his piercing insight into the working of death is invariably reflected in his poetry, though the Christian themes are also richly handled. “ A keen gardener, he loved large trees, foliage plants, anthuriums and orchids. He spent most of his weekends supervising his coconut plantation at Mangala Eliya. His other interests included fish-rearing, bird watching, reading and listening to Western classical music.”

Fernando’s “meticulous, mannered poetry” was well-inspired and shaped by his western classical learning and literature. These roots have a natural inborn concern for discipline and precision of technique of the classical tradition which he practiced scrupulously. Even in the thick of hostilities of the chauvinist cultural insurgents, Fernando faced and worked victoriously for his roots in the “unhelpful isolation”. Perhaps none or nothing can destroy the well-nourished, deep and wide-spread roots though the assaults hurt and bruise.

The dark, gloomy and tragic tone and temper find their overwhelming expression in the poetry of Fernando. It reminds us of J.M.Synge’s “Riders to the Sea”, the greatest tragedy written during the 20th century wherein the playwright has portrayed the high colors of the gloom, the mourning and the tragic. The dominance of the elegiac which counts for its lyrical beauty and excellence of theme and style form the true force and forte of Fernando’s poetry. So is its attraction and appeal above and beyond the sensitive. This taxman is taxing his readers with such profundity and immensity; its greater excellence is experienced in its mental and aesthetic satisfaction. His poems are long enough to cover the subject and short enough to reveal it in all its tenderness and grace. We can’t venture out into the poetic landscape and horizons of Fernando without being fairly acquainted with the Bible, the Greek and the Roman mythology. What adds to his inimitable strength is his stupendous ability to use felicitous phrases, compounds (complex and simple) and condensations. The beauty that emerges out of the elegiac in his poetry is simply stunning.
- See more at: http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=PoemArticle&PoemArticleID=25#sthash.wLILw1oS.dpuf

Patrick Fernando is considered to be the major force and, of course, the most significant voice in Sri Lankan poetry. It may seem incompatible with his profession as a tax man and a revenue specialist all his life; it is also astonishing. However, genius works and expresses itself in mysterious ways as it did in J. P. Fernando and as it does in countless others here and there. Son of the sea, groomed well in western classical lore and literature, keenly and resourcefully interested in teasing social and theological questions, Fernando frequently wrote on them for reputed journals. He had an eye and mind’s eyes and spirit wide-open and receptive to the luxuriant growth of nature in her full bloom and beauty and an enthusiastic and vibrant participator in its dramatic performance, Fernando’s poetry is a living and enduring response to this all. He had an envious command not only over Sinhalese and English but also over Greek and Latin and he was beloved to them. His passion for birds and his piercing insight into the working of death is invariably reflected in his poetry, though the Christian themes are also richly handled. “ A keen gardener, he loved large trees, foliage plants, anthuriums and orchids. He spent most of his weekends supervising his coconut plantation at Mangala Eliya. His other interests included fish-rearing, bird watching, reading and listening to Western classical music.”

Fernando’s “meticulous, mannered poetry” was well-inspired and shaped by his western classical learning and literature. These roots have a natural inborn concern for discipline and precision of technique of the classical tradition which he practiced scrupulously. Even in the thick of hostilities of the chauvinist cultural insurgents, Fernando faced and worked victoriously for his roots in the “unhelpful isolation”. Perhaps none or nothing can destroy the well-nourished, deep and wide-spread roots though the assaults hurt and bruise.

The dark, gloomy and tragic tone and temper find their overwhelming expression in the poetry of Fernando. It reminds us of J.M.Synge’s “Riders to the Sea”, the greatest tragedy written during the 20th century wherein the playwright has portrayed the high colors of the gloom, the mourning and the tragic. The dominance of the elegiac which counts for its lyrical beauty and excellence of theme and style form the true force and forte of Fernando’s poetry. So is its attraction and appeal above and beyond the sensitive. This taxman is taxing his readers with such profundity and immensity; its greater excellence is experienced in its mental and aesthetic satisfaction. His poems are long enough to cover the subject and short enough to reveal it in all its tenderness and grace. We can’t venture out into the poetic landscape and horizons of Fernando without being fairly acquainted with the Bible, the Greek and the Roman mythology. What adds to his inimitable strength is his stupendous ability to use felicitous phrases, compounds (complex and simple) and condensations. The beauty that emerges out of the elegiac in his poetry is simply stunning.

By R K Bhushan

Courtesy boloji.com

 

The must read poem from Patrick Fernando is “The Fisherman Mourned by his Wife?”

Patrick Fernando is considered to be the major force and, of course, the most significant voice in Sri Lankan poetry. It may seem incompatible with his profession as a tax man and a revenue specialist all his life; it is also astonishing. However, genius works and expresses itself in mysterious ways as it did in J. P. Fernando and as it does in countless others here and there. Son of the sea, groomed well in western classical lore and literature, keenly and resourcefully interested in teasing social and theological questions, Fernando frequently wrote on them for reputed journals. He had an eye and mind’s eyes and spirit wide-open and receptive to the luxuriant growth of nature in her full bloom and beauty and an enthusiastic and vibrant participator in its dramatic performance, Fernando’s poetry is a living and enduring response to this all. He had an envious command not only over Sinhalese and English but also over Greek and Latin and he was beloved to them. His passion for birds and his piercing insight into the working of death is invariably reflected in his poetry, though the Christian themes are also richly handled. “ A keen gardener, he loved large trees, foliage plants, anthuriums and orchids. He spent most of his weekends supervising his coconut plantation at Mangala Eliya. His other interests included fish-rearing, bird watching, reading and listening to Western classical music.”

Fernando’s “meticulous, mannered poetry” was well-inspired and shaped by his western classical learning and literature. These roots have a natural inborn concern for discipline and precision of technique of the classical tradition which he practiced scrupulously. Even in the thick of hostilities of the chauvinist cultural insurgents, Fernando faced and worked victoriously for his roots in the “unhelpful isolation”. Perhaps none or nothing can destroy the well-nourished, deep and wide-spread roots though the assaults hurt and bruise.

The dark, gloomy and tragic tone and temper find their overwhelming expression in the poetry of Fernando. It reminds us of J.M.Synge’s “Riders to the Sea”, the greatest tragedy written during the 20th century wherein the playwright has portrayed the high colors of the gloom, the mourning and the tragic. The dominance of the elegiac which counts for its lyrical beauty and excellence of theme and style form the true force and forte of Fernando’s poetry. So is its attraction and appeal above and beyond the sensitive. This taxman is taxing his readers with such profundity and immensity; its greater excellence is experienced in its mental and aesthetic satisfaction. His poems are long enough to cover the subject and short enough to reveal it in all its tenderness and grace. We can’t venture out into the poetic landscape and horizons of Fernando without being fairly acquainted with the Bible, the Greek and the Roman mythology. What adds to his inimitable strength is his stupendous ability to use felicitous phrases, compounds (complex and simple) and condensations. The beauty that emerges out of the elegiac in his poetry is simply stunning.
- See more at: http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=PoemArticle&PoemArticleID=25#sthash.wLILw1oS.dpuf

Patrick Fernando is considered to be the major force and, of course, the most significant voice in Sri Lankan poetry. It may seem incompatible with his profession as a tax man and a revenue specialist all his life; it is also astonishing. However, genius works and expresses itself in mysterious ways as it did in J. P. Fernando and as it does in countless others here and there. Son of the sea, groomed well in western classical lore and literature, keenly and resourcefully interested in teasing social and theological questions, Fernando frequently wrote on them for reputed journals. He had an eye and mind’s eyes and spirit wide-open and receptive to the luxuriant growth of nature in her full bloom and beauty and an enthusiastic and vibrant participator in its dramatic performance, Fernando’s poetry is a living and enduring response to this all. He had an envious command not only over Sinhalese and English but also over Greek and Latin and he was beloved to them. His passion for birds and his piercing insight into the working of death is invariably reflected in his poetry, though the Christian themes are also richly handled. “ A keen gardener, he loved large trees, foliage plants, anthuriums and orchids. He spent most of his weekends supervising his coconut plantation at Mangala Eliya. His other interests included fish-rearing, bird watching, reading and listening to Western classical music.”

Fernando’s “meticulous, mannered poetry” was well-inspired and shaped by his western classical learning and literature. These roots have a natural inborn concern for discipline and precision of technique of the classical tradition which he practiced scrupulously. Even in the thick of hostilities of the chauvinist cultural insurgents, Fernando faced and worked victoriously for his roots in the “unhelpful isolation”. Perhaps none or nothing can destroy the well-nourished, deep and wide-spread roots though the assaults hurt and bruise.

The dark, gloomy and tragic tone and temper find their overwhelming expression in the poetry of Fernando. It reminds us of J.M.Synge’s “Riders to the Sea”, the greatest tragedy written during the 20th century wherein the playwright has portrayed the high colors of the gloom, the mourning and the tragic. The dominance of the elegiac which counts for its lyrical beauty and excellence of theme and style form the true force and forte of Fernando’s poetry. So is its attraction and appeal above and beyond the sensitive. This taxman is taxing his readers with such profundity and immensity; its greater excellence is experienced in its mental and aesthetic satisfaction. His poems are long enough to cover the subject and short enough to reveal it in all its tenderness and grace. We can’t venture out into the poetic landscape and horizons of Fernando without being fairly acquainted with the Bible, the Greek and the Roman mythology. What adds to his inimitable strength is his stupendous ability to use felicitous phrases, compounds (complex and simple) and condensations. The beauty that emerges out of the elegiac in his poetry is simply stunning.
- See more at: http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=PoemArticle&PoemArticleID=25#sthash.wLILw1oS.dpuf

Patrick Fernando is considered to be the major force and, of course, the most significant voice in Sri Lankan poetry. It may seem incompatible with his profession as a tax man and a revenue specialist all his life; it is also astonishing. However, genius works and expresses itself in mysterious ways as it did in J. P. Fernando and as it does in countless others here and there. Son of the sea, groomed well in western classical lore and literature, keenly and resourcefully interested in teasing social and theological questions, Fernando frequently wrote on them for reputed journals. He had an eye and mind’s eyes and spirit wide-open and receptive to the luxuriant growth of nature in her full bloom and beauty and an enthusiastic and vibrant participator in its dramatic performance, Fernando’s poetry is a living and enduring response to this all. He had an envious command not only over Sinhalese and English but also over Greek and Latin and he was beloved to them. His passion for birds and his piercing insight into the working of death is invariably reflected in his poetry, though the Christian themes are also richly handled. “ A keen gardener, he loved large trees, foliage plants, anthuriums and orchids. He spent most of his weekends supervising his coconut plantation at Mangala Eliya. His other interests included fish-rearing, bird watching, reading and listening to Western classical music.”

Fernando’s “meticulous, mannered poetry” was well-inspired and shaped by his western classical learning and literature. These roots have a natural inborn concern for discipline and precision of technique of the classical tradition which he practiced scrupulously. Even in the thick of hostilities of the chauvinist cultural insurgents, Fernando faced and worked victoriously for his roots in the “unhelpful isolation”. Perhaps none or nothing can destroy the well-nourished, deep and wide-spread roots though the assaults hurt and bruise.

The dark, gloomy and tragic tone and temper find their overwhelming expression in the poetry of Fernando. It reminds us of J.M.Synge’s “Riders to the Sea”, the greatest tragedy written during the 20th century wherein the playwright has portrayed the high colors of the gloom, the mourning and the tragic. The dominance of the elegiac which counts for its lyrical beauty and excellence of theme and style form the true force and forte of Fernando’s poetry. So is its attraction and appeal above and beyond the sensitive. This taxman is taxing his readers with such profundity and immensity; its greater excellence is experienced in its mental and aesthetic satisfaction. His poems are long enough to cover the subject and short enough to reveal it in all its tenderness and grace. We can’t venture out into the poetic landscape and horizons of Fernando without being fairly acquainted with the Bible, the Greek and the Roman mythology. What adds to his inimitable strength is his stupendous ability to use felicitous phrases, compounds (complex and simple) and condensations. The beauty that emerges out of the elegiac in his poetry is simply stunning.
- See more at: http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=PoemArticle&PoemArticleID=25#sthash.wLILw1oS.dpuf

Separate Beds

Separate Beds- Book Review

by LaVyrle Spencer

 

My first romantic novel, I would say not bad, but as per the reputation of LaVyrle Spencer as she is rated among the best romantic novelist I don,t think it was up to the standards. The book was about a girl Catherine(Cat) who on a blind date with Clay, rich handsome young man accidentally gets pregnant. Clay is in love with other girl and nor Cat wants to marry Clay. The story is all about how they come together, how circumstances make them come close to each other. When you read the book you will know what is going to happen because the plot is quite predictable. But still I am rating the book 2 star and that is only because of the way Spencer has put every emotions into the book. The book mainly revolve around Catherine, so most focus was on her emotion what she is feeling and what she is going through. In the first half though it feels quite boring as story moves slow and mostly are the feeling of Catherine is what is described. Second half is better with other characters are more involved and the chemistry between the couple is sober. The romantic scenes are described very soulfully.
All in all I can say women will mostly like this book and may not agree with my review because this book of their taste and yes Spencer knows women emotion better and she had portrait it excellently in the book. I just want to say is there should be some newness in the story. 

Remembrance

Remembrance

Dedicated to all my school friends and our loving teachers

Miss you all a lot and miss those days

Remembrance once sparkled by eyes
I Remembered those with whom I rise
Those sweet smile and cute faces
Our life was in small pencil box cases
Good Morning Mam, God Bless You
Those were the lines we never miss que
Lunch was the time when we had all the fun
Before the last bell we are ready to run
Today we are running to match with life.

Prevail to time and remain rife.

Seeing this pic I had a smile

With a drop of tear, I thought everyone for a while

Remembrance once sparkled by eyes
I Remembered those with whom I rise

Republic Day

धुंधला गणतंत्र  

ये कहा हे आज देश मेरा

बहुत धुंधला सा हे गणतंत्र मेरा 

सब भाती भाती के हे लोग यहाँ 

पर खुद से सबको हे भेद यहाँ 

चलती नही परिवर्तन की आंधी हे 

क्यों की मजबूरी का नाम गाँधी हे 

रेंग रेंग के बढता हे देश मेरा 

बहुत धुंधला सा हे गणतंत्र मेरा 

राजनीती का खेल हे सारा 

गटबंधन का मेल हे सारा 

सरकार सिर्फ नेताओ से चलती हे 

आम जनता की यहाँ कहा कोई गिन्ती हे 

कानून पैसे की बोली बोलता हे 

नेताओ के सामने अपनी पतलून खोलता हे 

तिल तिल मरता हे देश मेरा 

बहुत धुंधला सा हे गणतंत्र मेरा

नारी का नही हे मोल यहाँ 

नैतिकता का हे बस खोल यहाँ 

रातो को माँ बहुत घबडाती हे 

क्यों की सुरक्षित बेटिया घर नही आती हे 

इंसान यहाँ कायरो सा जिगर रखता हे 

और कहता हे इस देश का कुछ नही हो सकता हे 

डर डर के जीता हे देश मेरा 

 बहुत धुंधला सा हे गणतंत्र मेरा

मना रहे हे गणतंत्र इस देश का 

हर इंसान हे स्वतंत्र इस देश का 

अब भी कुछ आँखों में उम्मीद बाकि हे 

अब आना देश का बदलाव बाकि हे 

आज भी इसकी मिट्टी से वही महक आती हे 

कुछ कर जाये इसके लिए ये अपना क़र्ज़ चुकती हे 

सर उठा कर जीना चाहता हे देश मेरा 

सबसे प्यारा हो गणतंत्र मेरा  

 

Sports Review- Federer vs Murray

Australian Open- 2nd SemiFinal

Match Summary

Roger Federer vs Andy Murray

After a one sided affair in the first semis where Djokovic bt Ferrer easily with 6/2 6/2 6/1 in straight sets, all the eyes where on the second semi, where number 2 seed was against number 3. As expected the match was a five setter but not as exciting ending, Murray dominated the match all around, it always seems to be as Federer was chasing Murray the whole match, but didn't get him. Murray was fast and superb, had served well and even returned well. Dominated Federer in all aspect except the tiebreakers. Federer was coming hard every time but didn't able to captivate the match.

Murray started positively and won the first set by 6/4, then Federer came back harder and played really good tennis and took the 2nd set in tie breaker with score 7/5. In the third set Murray fixed the focus came with beautiful serves and strong forehand to break Federer and take the set by 6/3. The fourth set was the best of all as both player were at their best, played their best tennis putting all they can to take the set to another tie breaker, this time Federer who is an expert in tie breaker took the tie breaker easily with 7/2. The Last set was all of Murray played extremely well with no great fight back from Federer, who I think lost the chase when Murray broke Federer's serve in the start of the last set and got ahead with 2/0 and finished the set by 6/2 to win the match.

Now Murray is going to face Djokovic on sunday in the finals. The win in US Open against Djoker will be fresh in his mind, but this time it will be not easy as this is the most consistent arena for number 1 seed Djo and he is too in a sublime form, which we showed us by how he thrashed Ferrer out of the tournament in straight set semifinal. It will hard for Murray to go into the finals and beat Djoker after this 4hr semi with Federer, so for me Djo is the favorite. But we cant say coz every day is a new day, one mantra Murray have to keep in mind to win the finals he has to win the tie breakers bcoz it will not be as  easy as today, the pressure of finale is different