Category Archives: Literature / Culture

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When Kahlil Gibran published his magnum opus, The Prophet, a hundred years ago, he wouldn’t have, perforce, realised the true, perennial import of his work: a structure with a timeless appeal. All the same, his insuperable work was a roseate contribution to literature — one that has in it just about every ingredient a […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Graham Greene — the legendary novelist, playwright, short story and screenplay writer, critic and journalist of the top draw — was always a mobile writer, never ever easy to pin down. His narrative quest was criminal-centered. His novels enveloped dissent, and his journalism championed disliked causes. His comedies were sad and his politics […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. — Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE, was a great visual artist. He was also a supreme architect of anticipation. What’s more, he never believed in the ordinary. He held a magnetic, or hypnotic, charm too. Evil, for him, […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Friedrich Nietzsche was, doubtless, one of modern philosophy’s most influential thinkers. His philosophical touchstone, also motif, albeit warped with fantasy, not only provides the precept and percept to unmasking the root motives that contextualise conventional Western religion, morality, including theology, but they have also more than something in them to deeply influence generations […]