" Style is the man " - these lines of Alexander Pope is an ample testimony to the persona of Dev Anand. His romantic exuberance had permeated from the evanescence of real life to the eternal life of art.His evergreen presence is to be rated with the style ,and the spirit that he infused rather than kayakalp or sanjeevani.Even before the globalisation drive had started he had served as a parameter of a synthesis of East and West, and the death of that cult figure is an immense loss to Indian cinema.
*Published in the Letters to the Editor, The New Indian Express Daily dtd 6th Dec 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Mullaperiyar- End emotions initiate Dialogue
The emotional downpour that the political parties of Kerala have been giving to the Mullaperiyar issue is not an amicable solution.
It is incomprehensible as to why a political dialogue is not initiated to draw a consensus sans the letter drafting processes alone.It is high time our PM intervenes to call for an agreement over the issue. Hope to see Oommen Chandy paying a visit to his TN counterpart to resolve the crisis. The satyagraha and dharnas staged will never provide relief, for Tamilnadu has even more tactics such as immolation which were witnessed during the Cauvery issue. Call for political consensus and judicial intervention.
It is incomprehensible as to why a political dialogue is not initiated to draw a consensus sans the letter drafting processes alone.It is high time our PM intervenes to call for an agreement over the issue. Hope to see Oommen Chandy paying a visit to his TN counterpart to resolve the crisis. The satyagraha and dharnas staged will never provide relief, for Tamilnadu has even more tactics such as immolation which were witnessed during the Cauvery issue. Call for political consensus and judicial intervention.
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