![]() ![]() ![]() The journey of this book is a long one - almost 800 pages, before you can read another 100 pages of notes. This updated and expanded edition, published in 2017, some ten years after the original, is richer for having included the rise to power of current Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But as he notes “that India is still a single nation after sixty testing years of independence, and that it is still largely democratic - these are facts that should compel our deeper attention”.Īnd so, Guha tales us on a journey through India’s history as an independent democracy. Guha writes that “the pages of this book are peppered with forecasts of India’s imminent dissolution, or of its descent into anarchy or authoritarian rules”. “Because they are so many and so various, the people of India are also divided”, according to Guha. India is an “unnatural nation”, according to Guha. ![]()
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![]() His artwork is celebrated by millions of music fans due to his live, on-stage painting appearances, music video animations, and his collaboration with major rock bands, as well as the use of his images in elaborate rock concert stage sets and his Grammy Award-winning album art for bands such as Tool, Beastie Boys, Nirvana, and SCI.Ĭommitted to art that celebrates oneness, Alex and Allyson Grey, his wife and companion of 36 years, cofounded CoSM (Chapel of Sacred Mirrors), a church celebrating creativity as a spiritual path. ![]() He presents dozens of key-note addresses around the world, teaches visionary art nationally and internationally, and is the author of six books, including The Mission of Art, Sacred Mirrors, Transfigurations, and Art Psalms.Īlex Grey’s art and his life have been featured on the Discovery Channel and in the New York Times, Newsweek, and Time magazine. Internationally renowned for paintings that deeply penetrate multidimensional reality, Grey interweaves biological anatomy with psychic-spiritual energies in his visual meditations on the nature of life and consciousness. ![]() Alex Grey, an icon of visionary art, has exhibited his work worldwide, from New York City to Paris to Tokyo, Brazil, and Moscow. ![]() ![]() I read it with some trepidation as it seemed unlikely that Rose Tremain could repeat the trick - especially with over two decades between writing the first book and the second. Discovering there was a sequel was wonderful. ' Merivel: A Man of His Time' (2014) is the follow up to ' Restoration' (1989), which I have just finished and which I adored. Whilst some readers may be less than charmed by a may who lives a parasitical life others will no doubt put that to one side and be charmed by the way in which Tremaine is looking at what it means to be a man (or woman).įunny, unexpected, elegiac, insightful, and beautifully written Merivel's self awareness means that we're presented with a rounded character who feels his limitations keenly but is nevertheless rarely crippled by his own sense of inadequacy. In some ways this is true of Merivel in that he has reached a balance in his life where he knows who he is and has the strength to avoid self delusion. The beauty of this book is that you can see how Tremaine's prose style had matured to the point where it's more measured and confident. If you're expecting to simply pick up where 'Restoration' leaves off you'll be disappointed but if you're interested in the game Tremaine is playing with ageing - both with herself and with her main character - you're in for a treat. ![]() ![]() I much prefer this work to much of Tremaine's recent writing. ![]() ![]() Gabe loves his red-haired jazz singer girlfriend, but he has not told her about the mysterious Lena, an escaped sex slave and seriously damaged waif with whom he's having obsessive, guilty sex in the guise of protection. In Brick Lane she explored, with comic gusto and pathos, the Bangladeshi immigrants and British no-hopers living in Tower. Meanwhile, his father in the north is dying, and an illegal immigrant hiding in the hotel has been discovered dead in the basement and is now haunting his nightmares. Ali, an upper-middlebrow traditionalist, follows in their footsteps. Biding his time, he is secretly setting up his own restaurant with a couple of equally unprincipled partners. His rag-tag multinational staff irritate him, his bald patch worries him, and his greasy and unprincipled managers enrage him. ![]() Not surprising, as he has no idea who he really is.Īt 42, Gabe is enslaved by to-do lists that are never done. Up to this point, though we've never once moved out of Gabriel's consciousness, we hardly know him. ![]() ![]() Just over half way through Monica Ali's third novel, Gabriel Lightfoot, executive chef of the fictional Imperial Hotel on London's Piccadilly, has his first funny turn and the book starts to take off. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are childhood friends and schoolmates of Hamlet, who were summoned to Elsinore by Claudius and Gertrude.Horatio is a good friend of Hamlet, from the university at Wittenberg, who came to Elsinore Castle to attend King Hamlet's funeral.Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius, and Laertes's sister, who lives with her father at Elsinore.Laertes is the son of Polonius, and has returned to Elsinore from Paris.Polonius ("Corambis" in "Q1") is Claudius's chief counsellor, and the father of Ophelia and Laertes.The Ghost appears in the image of Hamlet's father, the late King Hamlet (Old Hamlet). ![]()
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Sharks Are Flying at Your Head at 300 mph. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hans Castorp-such as the young man’s name-sat alone in his little grey-upholstered compartment, with his alligator-skin handbag, a present from his uncle and guardian. ![]() ![]() You mount a narrow-gauge train and as the small but very powerful engine gets underway, there begins the thrilling part of the journey, a steep and steady climb that seems never to come to an end.įor the station of Landquart lies at a relatively low altitude, but now the wild and rocky route pushes grimly onward into the Alps themselves. ![]() The characteristic of such a novel is that it focuses not so much on the hero himself but on the course of his education. Here, after a long and windy wait in a spot devoid of charm. This novel, published in 1924 after twelve years of intermittent labor, is the story of the self-development of a 'simple, young man.' Its hero is the hero of a bildungsroman. You take the train again, but only as far as Landquart, a small Alpine station, where you have to change. It crosses all sorts of countries, goes uphill and down dale.ĭescends from the plateau of Southern Germany to the shore of Lake Constance, over its bounding waves and on across marshes once thought to be bottomless.Īt this point, the route, which has been so far over trunk lines, gets up. AN UNASSUMING young man was traveling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks’ visit.įrom Hamburg to Davos is a long journey – too long, indeed, for so brief a stay. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Is this even something that is ethically right to do, to play with someone's human experience over the course of three weeks of their life?"įrom the beginning, Marsden told show creators Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (who also worked on The Office) that he didn't want to participate in a prank show. "I had many reservations, and the biggest one was the wild card of this one human being who's being dropped into this situation that is all fake and manufactured," Marsden says. ![]() Actor James Marsden, who plays a satirical, egotistical version of himself, calls the show a "very ambitious conceit." But what Ronald doesn't know is that the whole thing is fake - the entire courthouse has been fitted with hidden cameras and everyone there except him is an actor. Cameras track Ronald as he goes to the LA courtroom, is picked as the jury foreperson and follows along with the court proceedings. In the Amazon Freevee series Jury Duty, a solar contractor named Ronald Gladden has agreed to participate in what he believes is a documentary about the experience of being a juror. The new show Jury Duty has its genetic roots in the old TV show Candid Camera, where surprising things happened to unwitting bystanders - and hidden cameras captured their reactions. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was onboard Flight AI-420 to return to Pamela. Their marriage faced difficulties, however, so Saladin returned to India to visit his father. He dreamed of going to Great Britain from a young age and eventually made his dream a reality, marrying a British woman named Pamela Lovelace. Gibreel was travelling to meet her in London when the bomb exploded. After recovering, he ate a huge amount of pork and fell in love with an English mountaineer named Alleluia Cone. Gibreel lost his religious inclinations after a serious illness. He became a famous actor and had many romantic relationships, including one with a married woman named Rekha Merchant. Gibreel was orphaned as a young man but was adopted by a wealthy family. They both survive and wake up on a beach in England. As they fall, their bodies seem to transform: Gibreel becomes an angel while Saladin becomes a demon. ![]() ![]() ![]() When terrorists detonate a bomb, Gibreel and Saladin are thrown from the plane and plummet together toward the ground. A Bollywood actor named Gibreel Farishta and a voice actor named Saladin Chamcha are onboard Bostan Flight AI-420 from India to the United Kingdom. ![]() |