Kamala Das (1934-2009) Author(S): K

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Kamala Das (1934-2009) Author(S): K Sahitya Akademi Redefining the Genre: Kamala Das (1934-2009) Author(s): K. SATCHIDANANDAN Source: Indian Literature, Vol. 53, No. 3 (251) (May/June 2009), pp. 49-55 Published by: Sahitya Akademi Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23340304 Accessed: 20-03-2017 10:37 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms Sahitya Akademi is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Indian Literature This content downloaded from 14.139.211.4 on Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:37:34 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Courtesy: Sajitha Gouwry This content downloaded from 14.139.211.4 on Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:37:34 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms IN MEMORIAM Redefining the Genre: Kamala Das (1934-2009) K. SATC HI DAN AN DAN amala Das (1934-2009) had many identities which were in a fruitful J/Vdialogue with one another and coalesced into one at the point of realization: Amy, the beloved of the aristocratic Nalappat family in South Malabar where she was born and the dearest and the most generous of friends to the small circle of intimate companions to whom she opened her heart completely; Kamala Das, the radical Indian poet writing in English who did not mind sacrificing the sterile aestheticism of older poetry for the freedom of the body and the mind and managed to 'gatecrash into the precincts of others' dreams' (Anam alai Poems); Madhavikkutty, the Malayalam fiction writer who redefined the very genre of the novel and short story in the language and gave it singing nerves and Kamala Surayya who sought refuge for her tired wings in total surrender to Allah who was to her the very embodiment of the love she had sought all her life. She was honest in the deepest sense of the word, but was not naive and foolish as many seem to imagine: she was strong-willed and could interrogate her community as few Indian women-writers before her had done. She could be naughty and mischievous when she wanted and had a great sense of humour and irony evident in her memoirs as well as her poems. She continued to laugh at religious superstitions even after her conversion to Islam and was openly critical of the Indian inhibition and hypocrisy in man-woman relationships. I had, as an adolescent school boy, first known her as Madhavikkutty, a Malayalam writer of a novel kind of fiction that bordered on poetry that kept appearing in the Matbrubhumi Weekly which in those glorious days of the publication under the editorship of N. V. Krishna Warrier the scholar-poet and later of M.T. Vasudevan Nair, the fiction writer and film maker, used to feature all our beloved poets and fiction writers. Her first story, Kushtarogi (The Leper) had appeared in the Matbrubhumi Weekly in 1942 when she was a little 50 / Indian Literature: 251 This content downloaded from 14.139.211.4 on Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:37:34 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms girl and I was yet to be born; with the publication of Mathilukal (The Walls), her first collection in 1955, she had already established her place in Malayalam short story. She belonged to a generation that includes M.T. Vasudevan Nair, T. Patmanabhan and Kovilan who had all gone beyond the socialist realist mode employed by their predecessors to explore the tormented psyche of the solitary human beings haunted by guilt, pain and lovelessness. These writers— Vaikom Mohammed Basheer for their forerunner—travelled from the outer drama of social events to the inner drama of emotions; the states of mind became more important to them than the states of the community to express which they developed a taut and cryptic lyrical idiom. The narrative content became so thin in their stories and the form so much an organic part of it that they could hardly be retold in another voice. In Madhavikkutty this inward evolution touched its peak; her stories most often evolved from a central image and expressed a mood or a vision. Even the titles of her stories sounded like the titles of paintings or poems (remember she herself practiced painting for a while): The Red Skirt, The Red Mansion, The Child in the Naval Uniform, The Father and The Son, The Moon's Meat, Sandalwood Trees, The Secret of the Dawn, Boats, The Smell of the Bird, The King's Beloved, A Doll for Rukmini. Her vocabulary was limited as she had little formal education and had mostly grown up outside Kerala; but she turned this limitation to her advantage by her deft and economic employment of those few words in her stories that were always spare and crisp to the point of being fragile. Many of her stories were not longer than two or three book pages, including the famous ones like "Padmavati, the Harlot." Here a harlot, like in the Arun Kolatkar poem where a prostitute longs to be photographed with Vithoba and Rukmai, goes to the temple, requests God to accept her ragged body that was like a river that does not dry up even if thousands bathe in it, meets her god who is growing old and gets dissolved in him for a while to return purified. In her later stories like "Pakshiyude Manam" (The Smell of a Bird), "Unni," "Kalyani," "Malancherivukalil" (On the Mountain Slopes), and "Karutta Patti" (The Black Dog) the element of fantasy grew stronger; they became more and more compressed often taking the form of brief monologues. At times her stories became pure poetry, just emotional contexts with no narrative content. Look at "Premattinte Vilapakavyam" (An Elegy for Love): You are my beloved. You are the old sweet mango tree for my jasmine creeper to wind round. You appear before me with the sad halo of a banished king. I longed to have you in my lap, heal your wounds and ease your weariness. You are fortunate and you are the fortune. You are pure, unmixed manliness. Woman's soul K Satchidanandan / 51 This content downloaded from 14.139.211.4 on Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:37:34 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms is the garden where you roam. You are inside me and outside me. You rest on the banks of the sanguine streams inside me like a king tired of hunting. You trample my nerves with your boots, thinking they are the roots of the wild trees long ago dead... In some stories, especially those around the character Janu, a house maid, Madhavikkutty employed the dialect of her Valluvanad to great effect. Thus the stories collected in her seven volumes in Malayalam show great thematic and structural diversity while being linked together by their essential femininity, their sisterhood with nature (her stories are full of birds and trees, sand and fields and moonlight) and the presence of her rural locale, either as real setting or as a nostalgic landscape. She is one with the Modernists like O. V. Vijayan, Anand, M. Mukundan, Sethu, Kakkanadan and Punattil Kunhabdula in urbanising fiction in Malayalam, but she had her own way of doing it: her urban women are mostly schizophrenic, torn by conflicts and desperate for real love while her rural women, mostly drawn from the lower classes, are less inhibited and openly critical of the master-race and patriarchal interventions. They also seem more at peace with themselves as they feel the presence of a community and of comforting nature around them. Women and nature here appear to fertilize each other. Even in the city the woman feels pacified by the soothing touch of the tender mango leaf on the terrace. Ammu who in Sarkara Kondoru Tulabharam (An Offering with Jaggery) visits Guruvayur for the offering with her husband Biju cured by her prayers and refuses to go back with him to the city, charmed by her farmer-cousin in the village living in harmony with nature, sums up this attitude. Probably her autobiographical writings grew out of her monologic tales. Ente Katha (My Story) that was written during her treatment for lukemia created a sensation. The readers were drawn into a charming and threatening life of love and longing, of desire and disloyalty. She wrote other memoirs too: Balyakalasmaranakal (The Memories of Childhood), Varshatigalkku Munpu (Years Ago) and Neermatalam Poottappol (When the Pomegranates Bloomed). It is safe to view all her works as part real and part fantasy as she was adept at genre-crossing. Her novels — there are seven of them if we follow the publishers' categorization, including Chandanamarangal (Sandalwood Trees) - that obliquely deals with same-sex love — are long stories, most of her stories are like poems, the style of her poems is often not very different from that of her stories and the one-act play, Memory, Great Moody Sea combines all these genres! I came to her poetry later, reading, in 1968 her Summer in Calcutta (1965) and Descendants (1967) together, being charmed by her eloquent images and her 52 / Indian Literature: 251 This content downloaded from 14.139.211.4 on Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:37:34 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms unconventional attitude to the art of poetry.
Recommended publications
  • LIST of PROGRAMMES Organized by SAHITYA AKADEMI During APRIL 1, 2016 to MARCH 31, 2017
    LIST OF PROGRAMMES ORGANIZED BY SAHITYA AKADEMI DURING APRIL 1, 2016 TO MARCH 31, 2017 ANNU A L REOP R T 2016-2017 39 ASMITA Noted women writers 16 November 2016, Noted Bengali women writers New Delhi 25 April 2016, Kolkata Noted Odia women writers 25 November 2016, Noted Kashmiri women writers Sambalpur, Odisha 30 April 2016, Sopore, Kashmir Noted Manipuri women writers 28 November 2016, Noted Kashmiri women writers Imphal, Manipur 12 May 2016, Srinagar, Kashmir Noted Assamese women writers 18 December 2016, Noted Rajasthani women writers Duliajan, Assam 13 May 2016, Banswara, Rajasthan Noted Dogri women writers 3 March 2016, Noted Nepali women writers Jammu, J & K 28 May 2016, Kalimpong, West Bengal Noted Maithili women writers 18 March 2016, Noted Hindi women writers Jamshedpur, Jharkhand 30 June 2016, New Delhi AVISHKAR Noted Sanskrit women writers 04 July 2016, Sham Sagar New Delhi 28 March 2017, Jammu Noted Santali women writers Dr Nalini Joshi, Noted Singer 18 July 2016, 10 May, 2016, New Delhi Baripada, Odisha Swapan Gupta, Noted Singer and Tapati Noted Bodo women writers Gupta, Eminent Scholar 26 September 2016, 30 May, 2016, Kolkata Guwahati, Assam (Avishkar programmes organized as Noted Hindi women writers part of events are subsumed under those 26 September 2016, programmes) New Delhi 40 ANNU A L REOP R T 2016-2017 AWARDS Story Writing 12-17 November 2016, Jammu, J&K Translation Prize 4 August 2016, Imphal, Manipur Cultural ExCHANGE PROGRAMMES Bal Sahitya Puraskar 14 November 2016, Ahmedabad, Gujarat Visit of seven-member
    [Show full text]
  • Masculinity and the Structuring of the Public Domain in Kerala: a History of the Contemporary
    MASCULINITY AND THE STRUCTURING OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN IN KERALA: A HISTORY OF THE CONTEMPORARY Ph. D. Thesis submitted to MANIPAL ACADEMY OF HIGHER EDUCATION (MAHE – Deemed University) RATHEESH RADHAKRISHNAN CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY (Affiliated to MAHE- Deemed University) BANGALORE- 560011 JULY 2006 To my parents KM Rajalakshmy and M Radhakrishnan For the spirit of reason and freedom I was introduced to… This work is dedicated…. The object was to learn to what extent the effort to think one’s own history can free thought from what it silently thinks, so enable it to think differently. Michel Foucault. 1985/1990. The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality Vol. II, trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage: 9. … in order to problematise our inherited categories and perspectives on gender meanings, might not men’s experiences of gender – in relation to themselves, their bodies, to socially constructed representations, and to others (men and women) – be a potentially subversive way to begin? […]. Of course the risks are very high, namely, of being misunderstood both by the common sense of the dominant order and by a politically correct feminism. But, then, welcome to the margins! Mary E. John. 2002. “Responses”. From the Margins (February 2002): 247. The peacock has his plumes The cock his comb The lion his mane And the man his moustache. Tell me O Evolution! Is masculinity Only clothes and ornaments That in time becomes the body? PN Gopikrishnan. 2003. “Parayu Parinaamame!” (Tell me O Evolution!). Reprinted in Madiyanmarude Manifesto (Manifesto of the Lazy, 2006). Thrissur: Current Books: 78.
    [Show full text]
  • Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and Dalits: a Bibliography
    Women’s Studies Resources Series; 4 Scheduled Castes/Schedules Tribes and Dalits A Bibliography Complied by Madhu Shri & Deepa Singhal January 2015 CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT STUDIES 25, Bhai Vir Singh Marg (Gole Market) New Delhi-110 001 Ph. 91-11-32226930, 322266931 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.cwds.ac.in/library/library.htm 1 CONTENTS Preface ……………………………………………….………………….i-ii Part - I Books/Mimeo Papers/Conferences /Seminar/Workshops Papers and Reports/Analytics ……………………………………………1-163 Section-I: References on Women ……………………….. 1-51 Section-II: General References .………………………... 52-163 Part - II Journals/Periodicals/Newsletters Articles ………………………. 64-189 Part- III References in Hindi ………………………………………………190-222 Part- IV Indexes: Name Index ………………………………………………………223-247 Keywords Index …………………………………………………. 248-273 Area Index ……………………………………………………….. 274-279 Part- V Appendices: List of Journals/Periodicals/Newsletters indexed in the bibliography ………………………………………………………280-288 List of Organisations/Institutions ………………………………... 289-292 List of Journals/Newsletters ………………………………………293-294 2 Preface Caste is an institution of oppression and social discrimination specific to South Asia, more so to India. Caste is hostile to individual and collective freedom. In recent years, there have been new attempts to understand the socio-economic conditions of the life of SCs/STs and dalit peoples and household in India. The SCs/STs, and Dalits throughout the country occupy the lowest rank in the caste hierarchy. They are landless agricultural and casual labourers. They are mostly engaged in menial jobs which adds to lower their social and ritual status further and still being suppressed and oppressed in different forms of social, economic and political spheres in many parts of the country.
    [Show full text]
  • Re-Mapping Identity, Culture and History Through Literature , Published by Veda Publications Is a Collection Of
    Re-Mapping Identity, Culture and History through Literature Editors : Dr. Sushil Mary Mathews Dr. M. Angeline RE-MAPPING IDENTITY, CULTURE AND HISTORY THROUGH LITERATURE Editors : Dr. Sushil Mary Mathews, Dr. M. Angeline Published by VEDA PUBLICATIONS Address : 45-9-3, Padavalarevu, Gunadala, Vijayawada. 520004, A.P. INDIA. Mobile : +91 9948850996 Web : www.vedapublications.com / www.joell.in Copyright © 2019 Publishing Process Manager : K.John Wesley Sasikanth First Published : August 2019, Printed in India E-ISBN : 978-93-87844-18-6 For copies please contact : [email protected] Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in the book are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. © All Rights reserved, no part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or any means, without permission in writing from the publisher. Foreword I am extremely delighted to note that the Department of English is bringing out a book on relevant issues relating to Remapping Identity, Culture and History through Literature in collusion with Veda Publications. The essays by erudite academicians and research scholars probe deeply into assorted aspects of modern global issues of Identity, Culture and History, a multidisciplinary perspective. This book deals with cross references that connect Literature with Culture and History of various works of authors dealing with cultural aspects and Identity crisis globally. Diversified poems, novels and plays written by authors throw light on the current burning issue of diaspora and cultural conflicts. The younger generation will glean awareness on various sensitive issues like marginalization and trauma of migration that confronts people today. I am sure this book will give numerous ideas which will be an eye opener to many issues through a plethora of literary genres.
    [Show full text]
  • Library Stock.Pdf
    Acc.No. Title Author Publication Samuhyashasthra Vidyarthimithram, 1 Vidhyabyasathinte saithadhika Rajeshwary V.P Kottayam Adisthanangal-1 Samuhyashasthra Vidyarthimithram, 2 Vidhyabyasathinte saithadhika Rajeshwary V.P Kottayam Adisthanangal-1 Samaniashasthra Vidhyabyasathinte Vidyarthimithram, 3 saithadhika Rajeshwary V.P Kottayam Adisthanangal-1 Samaniashasthra Vidhyabyasathinte Vidyarthimithram, 4 saithadhika Rajeshwary V.P Kottayam Adisthanangal-1 Adhunika Vidhyabyasathinte Vidyarthimithram, 5 Rajeshwary V.P Saithathikadisthanangal-2 Kottayam Adhunika Vidhyabyasathinte Vidyarthimithram, 6 Rajeshwary V.P Saithathikadisthanangal-2 Kottayam MalayalaBasha Bodhanathinte Vidyarthimithram, 7 Saithathikadisthanam (Pradhesika Rajapan Nair P.K Kottayam Bashabothanam-1) MalayalaBasha Bodhanathinte Vidyarthimithram, 8 Saithathikadisthanam (Pradhesika Rajapan Nair P.K Kottayam Bashabothanam-1) Samuhyashasthra Vidyarthimithram, 9 Vidhyabyasathinte saithadhika Thomas R.S Kottayam Adisthanangal-2 Samuhyashasthra Vidyarthimithram, 10 Vidhyabyasathinte saithadhika Thomas R.S Kottayam Adisthanangal-2 Samaniashasthra Vidhyabyasathinte Vidyarthimithram, 11 saithadhika Rajeshwary V.P Kottayam Adisthanangal-2 Samaniashasthra Vidhyabyasathinte Vidyarthimithram, 12 saithadhika Rajeshwary V.P Kottayam Adisthanangal-2 Samaniashasthra Vidhyabyasathinte Vidyarthimithram, 13 saithadhika Rajeshwary V.P Kottayam Adisthanangal-2 MalayalaBasha Bodhanathinte Vidyarthimithram, 14 Saithathikadisthanam (Pradhesika Rajapan Nair P.K Kottayam Bashabothanam-2) MalayalaBasha
    [Show full text]
  • Research Journal of English (RJOE) Vol-1, Issue-2, 2016 an International Peer-Reviewed English Journal ISSN: 2456-2696 ______
    Oray’s Publications Research Journal Of English (RJOE) Vol-1, Issue-2, 2016 www.rjoe.org.in An International Peer-Reviewed English Journal ISSN: 2456-2696 __________________________________________________________________________________ THE WRITINGS OF KAMALA DAS ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT ___________________________________________________________________________ Dr K. Kavitha, M.A.English, M.Sc (Psy), M.A. (Poli&Admn), M.A.(Phil), M.Ed, M.Phil, PhD ( Edu).,(PhD,( Eng)). Lecturer in M.Ed, Dept.of Education, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati ___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Kamala Das (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), also known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and Kamala Surayya, was an Indian English poet and literature and at an equivalent time a number one South Dravidian author from Kerala, India. Her quality in Kerala relies mainly on her short stories and life story, whereas her end product in English, written underneath the name Kamala Das, is noted for the poems and explicit autobiography.Her open and honest treatment of feminine physiological property, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power, but also marked her as an iconoclast in her generation. On thirty one could 2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in Pune. Das has earned considerable respect in recent years.Kamala Das was born in Punnayurkulam, Thrissur District in Kerala, on thirty-one March 1934, to V. M. Nair, a former editor of the wide circulated South Dravidian daily Mathrubhumi, and Nalapat Balamani Amma, a far-famed Malayali poet. She spent her childhood between metropolis, wherever her father was utilized as a senior officer within the Walford Transport Company that sold-out Bentley and Rolls Royce vehicles, and also the Nalapat ancestral home in Punnayurkulam.
    [Show full text]
  • ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY (Accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC) KARAIKUDI – 630 003 TAMILNADU
    ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY (Accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC) KARAIKUDI – 630 003 TAMILNADU DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION (Recognized by Distance Education Council (DEC), New Delhi) POST GRADUATE / P.G.DIPLOMA /CERTIFICIATE COURSE PROGRAMMES REGULATIONS AND SYLLABI Copy Right Reserved For Private use only Copy Right Reserved For Private use only ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY, KARAIKUDI DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION REGULATIONS AND SYLLABI P.G. / P.G. DIPLOMA Sl.No. Course Page No. 1 M.Com 3-14 2 M.Com(F&C) 15-25 3 M.A.(Tamil) 26-33 4 M.A.(English) 34-42 5 M.A.(History) 43-55 6 M.A.(Education) 56-74 7 M.A.(Sociology) 75-87 8 M.A.(Personnel Management & Industrial 88-98 Relations) 9 M.A.(Master of Journalism and Mass 99-109 Communication) 10 M.A.(Child Care & Education) 110-121 11 M.Sc(Mathematics) 122-132 12 M.Sc(Information Technology) 133-156 13 M.Sc(Computer Science) 157-173 14 Master of Library and Information Science 174 -182 (MLIS) (One year) 1 14 M.Sc(Physics) 183 - 203 15 M.Sc(Chemistry) 204 – 227 16 M.Sc(Botany with Specialization in Plant Bio- 228 – 241 Technology) 17 M.Sc(Zoology) 242 - 243 18 P.G.Dip. in (Personnel Management & 263 – 268 Industrial Relations) 19 P.G.Dip. in (Business Management) 269 – 275 20 P.G.Dip. in (Hospital Administration) 276 – 282 21 P.G.Dip. in (Sports Management) 283 – 287 22 P.G.Dip. in (Human Resource Management) 288 - 293 23 P.G.Dip. in (Yoga Education) 294 – 351 2 Course : M.Com.
    [Show full text]
  • E-Newsletter
    DELHI aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa KISSA-O-KALAM: THE SPEAKING PEN 2017 AN ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON WRITING AND CREATIVITY IN ENGLISH AND HINDI May 22-26, 2017, New Delhi Sahitya Akademi organized first-ever detailed event for children, the first edition of Kissa-O- Kalam: The Speaking Pen, an annual workshop for the young on creative writing in Hindi and English at the Akademi premises in New Delhi on May 22-26, 2017. This was a first of its kind initiative by the Akademi to sensitize our younger generations to our languages and literatures and to instill in them a love for the written word. This initiative, Kissa-O-Kalam: The Speaking Pen, envisaged as an annual affair with a focused interactive workshop as well as detailed individual activities held over five days encouraged and involved our children to participate and enjoy in the world of books and in the creative areas of reading and writing. Kissa-O-Kalam hopes to continue to carry forward the energy, creativity and results that were seen in this first installment in the coming years. This year, this 5-day session, held in the spacious and welcoming auditorium of the Akademi in New Delhi, from 22nd May to 26th May 2017 (Monday to Friday), was planned with a special focus to help children enjoy reading and writing both in prose and poetry, to begin to play with language, and to use language creatively and as a first step towards the creation of books. The workshop was titled Exploring Forms of Writing – Short Stories and Poetry. The workshop was opened to a final list of 50 students in the ages of 8 years to 16 years from across schools in the Delhi-NCR region.
    [Show full text]
  • SSLC Level Exam 1996
    SSLC Level Exam 1996 1. Whose birthday is being celebrated as Sadbhavana day? (a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Indira Gandhi (d) Rajiv Gandhi 2. The most densely populated state in India is: (a) Kerala (b) Maharashtra (c) West Bengal (d) Uttar Pradesh 3. Gandhiji started his Dandi march from: (a) Wardha (b) Santhi Niketan (c) Sabarmati (d) Amritsar 4. Rourkela steel plant is in ———— (a) Maharashtra (b) Orissa (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Andhra Pradesh 5. The Chairman of the Tenth Finance Commission is: (a) N.K.P. Salve (b) Pranab Mukerji (c) K.C. Pant (d) A.M. Khusro 6. The Minister who resigned from Central Cabinet during the wake of Chinese aggression (a) H.K.L. Bhagat (b) V.C. Shukla (c) V.K. Krishna Menon (d) Jaffer Sheriff 7. Which one deals with the study of diseases? (a) Pathology (b) Neurology (c) Cardiology (d) Etymology 8. Who had the shortest span as Prime Minister of India? (a) Chandrashekhar (b) Gulzari Lal Nanda (c) Charan Singh (d) Lal Bahadur Shastri 9. The headquaters of UNICEF is ——— (a) New York (b) Geneva (c) Paris (d) Vienna 10. In which year was Kerala University established? (a) 1957 (b) 1956 (c) 1937 (d) 1962 11 The second most populous country in the world: (a) China (b) India (c) U.S.A (d) France 12. The First Woman who secured the Nehru Literacy Award: (a) Welthy Fischer (b) Mother Teresa (c) Durgabai Deshmukh (d) Lakshmi N. Menon 13. The power to amend the Indian Constitution vests with the ——— (a) President (b) Parliament (c) Prime Minister (d) Chief Justice of Supreme Court 14.
    [Show full text]
  • Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, New Delhi
    APPELLATE TRIBUNAL FOR ELECTRICITY, NEW DELHI Cause List for Tuesday, the 19th February, 2019 TIME: 11.00 A.M. COURT – II CORAM: HON’ BLE MR. JUSTICE N.K. PATIL, JUDICIAL MEMBER HON’ BLE MR. RAVINDRA KUMAR VERMA, TECHNICAL MEMBER For Admission S. Case No. Parties Name of Counsel for No. Appellant/Respondent Mrs./Mr. 1. 383/18 Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers K.J. Parthasarathy & Association -Appellant(s) Geeta Kovilan, P.R. Kovilan IA-1848/18 Versus (For stay) Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Sethu Ramalingam for R-1 Commission & Anr. -Respondent(s) S. Vallinayagam for R-2 IA-117/19 (For impleadment) (All the Respondents have been represented) IA-255/19 (For vacating the interim order dt. 19.12.2018) (Connected with A.No.215/18 & batch) For Admission After Notice 2. 21/19 Talwandi Sabo Power Limited- Appellant(s) Amit Kapur, Poonam Verma, Versus Abiha Zaidi (Service Punjab State Electricity Regulatory complete) Commission & Anr. - Respondent(s) M.G. Ramachandran, Ranjitha Ramachandran, Poorva Saigal, Anushree Bardhan, Pulkit Agarwal, Shubham Arya, Arvind Kumar Dubey for R-2 (Respondent No.2, though served, is unrepresented) Pleadings Incomplete 3. 86/18 Tamil Nadu Newsprint & Papers Limited Anand Ganesan, Rahul Bajaj & - Appellant(s) IA-107/18 Versus S. Vallinayagam for R-1 (For stay) Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Sethu Ramalingam for R-2 Corporation Ltd & Anr. - Respondent(s) (Service (All the Respondents have been complete) represented) 1 3a. 87/18 M/s. Seshasayee Paper and Boards Anand Ganesan, Rahul Balaji & Limited - Appellant(s) IA-56/18 Versus S. Vallinayagam for R-1 (For stay) Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Sethu Ramalingam for R-2 Corporation.
    [Show full text]
  • Malayalam-Ug.Pdf
    I Year BA/Bsc/BSW/BPA/Bsc (Fc Sc) I Semester 2016-17 I Poetry : MAGNALANA Mariyam By Vallathol Narayana Menon II Prose : Collection of Essays 1. GANDHI – KALAYUM SAHITHYAVUM KARMA YOGIYUDE KANNIL By THAYATTU SANKARA N 2. KAALIFORNIYAN SKECHUKAL By Sugatha Kumari 3. SREE NARAYANAN AAR By Sukumar Azhikodu 4. YUDDHATHINTE PARINAMAM By KuttiKrishna Marar 5. AASAN VIPLAVATHINTE SUKRANAKSHATHRAM By Joseph Mundessery III Precise Writing : No Prescribed Text Book. A passage of reasonable length should be précised, preferably on third of its length. II Semester 2016-17 I Poetry : ‘SURYAKANTHI” By G. Shankara Kurup Only the following poems should be taught 1. SURYAKANTHI 2. ENTE VELI 3. INNU NJAM, NAALE NEE 4. NISAA GEETHAM 5. PREMA PIPAASA II Prose : ’15 STORIES’ Compiled by M.V AKBAR Only the following stories are presecribed. 1. MOTHIRAM - KAAROOR NEELAKANDA PILLA. 2. ORU MANUSHYAN - BASHEER 3. RAACHIYAMMA - OROOB 4. KATTHUNNA ORU TATHA CHAKRAM - T. PADMANABHAN 5. PERUMAZHAYUDE PITTENNU - M.T VASUDEVAN NAIR III Translation : No Prescribed Text Book. An English passage of reasonable length and difficulty to be translated into malayalam. II Year BA/Bsc/BSW/BPA/Bsc (Fc Sc) III Semester 2017-18 I Poetry : Collection of Poetry 1. KOCHUTHOMMAN – ORU VIDYARTHI – PURAANAM By N.V Krishna Variar 2. MANINAADAM By Edappally Raghvan Pilla 3. MALA THURAKKAL By Vailoppilly 4. MAZHUVINTE KATHA By BAALAMANIYAMMA 5. KOTHAMPU MANIKAL By O.N.V KURUP II Prose : ‘SAAKETHAM’ (DRAMA) By C.N Sreekandan Nair III PARAAVARTHANAM : No Prescribed Text Book. A few lines of poetry, either from the prescribed text or from any other Book, to be expanded and write in proses order.
    [Show full text]
  • A Study on Time by Mtvasudevan Nair
    European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine ISSN 2515-8260 Volume 07, Issue 07, 2020 Socio-Cultural Transformation: A Study On Time By M.T.Vasudevan Nair Dr. Digvijay Pandya1, Ms. Devisri B2 1Associate Professor, Department of English, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. 2Doctoral Research Scholar, Department of English, Punjab, India. ABSTRACT: Kerala, the land is blessed with nature and its tradition. It has a copiously diverse vegetation beautiful landscape and climate. The land is also rich in its literature. M.T.Vasudevan Nair is one of the renowned figures in Malayalam literature who excels and portrays the traditional and cultural picture of Kerala society. Kaalam, published in 1969 is a lyrical novel in Malayalam literature by M.T.Vasudevan Nair and Gita Krishnan Kutty translates it into English as Time. This paper tries to analyse the sociological and cultural transformation of Kerala in the novel Time during the period of MT. It also focuses on the system of Marumakkathayam,joint family system and its transformation. Keywords: Sociological and Cultural transformation, Marumakkathayam, Joint family system, Tarawads. India is a multi-lingual country steeped in its rich culture and tradition. There are many such treasure troves of creativity in the regional languages that would have been lost to the rest of the world, but for its tradition, which is the only means to reach a wider group of reading public. Tradition helps to understand the thought process of the people of a particular region against the backdrop of socio-cultural roots. Malayalam is one of the multifaceted languages in India. Malayalam, the mother tongue of nearly thirty million Malayalis, ninety percent of whom living in Kerala state in the south – west corner of India, belongs to the Dravidian family of languages.
    [Show full text]