Thoughts and Reflections, Ideas and Ideals
A brief WhatsApp exchange among Sri Indira Parthasarathy, Sri Amaruvi Devanathan, and the author becomes an imagined parlour conversation on Donna Tartt’s provocative claim that novels take us inside another soul while films leave us as voyeurs.
From Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy to Bhishma’s death in the Mahabharata and the sorrows of Ramanujacharya, the discussion asks what novels and cinema do differently to imagination, memory, and feeling.
A sister-in-law of mine who lives in Houston USA forwarded to me this morning the above image and also the below appended message annotating it : QUOTE : “Bhishma Pitamah is known to have done only one moral blunder in life – he didn’t get angry at the right moment, when Draupdi was being disrobed.Continue reading “BHISHMACHARYA AND JATAAYU —- what moral lessons can we learn from their manner of death ?”