![]() ![]() Her remarkable interventions in the Keezhvenmani brutal massacre of Dalit agricultural workersdemanding just wages, and later in the Vachathi mass rapes of tribal women,were testimony to both these rare qualities. Her training as a journalist enabled her to document oppression and violence with authenticity, and at the same time with her simplicity and approachability she played an energetic role in mobilising and organizing women belonging to the labouring poor both among workers and peasants. She returned to Chennai with a passionate commitment to Left ideology and threw herself into the working class movement and was engaged in unionizing women workers under the aegis of CITU. ![]() Mythily was influenced by the international upsurge against the Vietnam War and the struggle of the blacks against racism in the USA, while she worked as a journalist with the UN in the 1960s. AIDWA recalls with love and pride her enormous contributions to our organisation both at the national level and in Tamilnadu. ![]() Comrade Mythily Sivaraman, one of the tallest, most beloved leaders of AIDWA since its formative years, its former national vice-president and then its patron, passed away on 30 May at the age of 81 in Chennai, Tamilnadu due to Covid 19 complications.She had been battling ill health for the last few years of her life, but had never been away from our thoughts. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A world that looks much like our often insufferable own, made bearable with sharp dialogue and characters that draw us away from our psyche and into their own. ![]() We fell in love with Connell and Marianne on the page and, later, on-screen and waited (impatiently) to fall into the worlds of Rooney’s next characters. A love story so captivating and familiar, we wince while reading, remembering our own youthful failures and hesitations to communicate with the ones we love. Shortly after, Rooney’s Normal People was published, capturing the hearts of so many readers and cementing Rooney as one of the most prominent authorial voices today. This voice, tinged with a fierce intellect and comical irony, forms a humanistic portrayal of life where political rebellion merely stands alongside the deeply visceral experiences of love, sex and friendship. Sally Rooney’s debut 2017 novel, Conversations with Friends introduced her voice that so clearly and eloquently expressed a generation of millennials, disgruntled with the capitalist world they have been forced to adopt. Her latest, Beautiful World, Where Are You?, can perhaps be read as a personal interrogation from Rooney, forcing us to question the values that we equate with “success” in the 21 st Century. With three best-selling novels published by the age of 30, Sally Rooney is by most definitions, a huge success. Posted on 5 October, 2021 Warning: Minor spoilers ahead! ![]() ![]() ![]() She tended the spa like a lady might tend her roses. In doing so, the matchmaker of Grace-by-the-Sea may just find that the best match for her is the rogue who stole her heart years ago.Here's a little taste: Lark had watched Jesslyn yesterday, flitting from group to group, individual to individual, and always leaving them looking happier than when she'd arrived. When the village's future is threatened, Jess must work with Lark to solve the mystery and protect the town's own. But Grace-by-the-Sea is the perfect little spa town, run by the still oh-so-perfect Jesslyn Chance. Now he's back on a mission: to identify the mysterious Lord of the Smugglers who allegedly sails from Grace Cove and takes England's secrets to France. But when a rogue returns from her past, Jess finds herself suddenly at sea.Always an adventurer, Larkin Denby left Grace-by-the-Sea to right the wrongful death of his father. She is the hostess of the spa, arranging introductions and entertainments and playing matchmaker to the ladies and gentlemen who come to take the waters, promenade through the shops, and dance at the assembly. ![]() ![]() Grace-by-the-Sea: Where romance and adventure come home.Polished Jesslyn Chance has one of the most enviable positions in the little Regency coastal village of Grace-by-the-Sea. Download The Matchmaker s Rogue Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My friend got popcorn, and I got comfortable. Sure, I'd go.Īlmost no one was in the theater that morning. Truly, the last movie I saw in a theater was Lincoln, in 2012.īut, one day back in 2005, a good friend called and wondered if I'd like to spend that snowy Sunday in a theater with her, watching something called Brokeback Mountain.īrokeback Mountain? Never heard of it. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance. ![]() The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain," and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.īoth men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. ![]() Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece.Įnnis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. ![]() ![]() ![]() During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives.ĭrawing on years of research, Horan weaves little-known facts into a compelling narrative, vividly portraying the conflicts and struggles of a woman forced to choose between the roles of mother, wife, lover, and intellectual. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. “‘I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. ![]() Deeply researched and thoughtfully written fiction about a lesser-known aspect of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life and legacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part of a small demon lair in Las Vegas, tattooist Harper. Even if it will mean letting the demon inside him rise and wreak the havoc it was created to make. The first book in Suzanne Wrights bestselling witty, paranormal romance series, Dark in You. He won’t allow anyone to take her from him. He’ll have her, and he’ll keep her safe from the threat that looms over her. Knox is used to getting what he wants, and he wants Harper. Unpredictable, elusive, and complex, she draws Knox and his inner demon like nothing ever has. Harper does neither, which unexpectedly amuses him. He’s also used to people fearing and obeying him. ![]() And when an unknown danger starts closing in on Harper, it seems that Knox is the only one who can keep her safe.Īs Prime of his Las Vegas lair and a successful businessman, Knox Thorne is used to being in control. No one seems to know what breed of demon Knox is, only that he’s more dangerous than anything she’s ever before encountered. She’s not so sure she wants either of those things. The billionaire also wants Harper in his bed. Compelling, full of secrets and armed with raw sexuality, Knox Thorne is determined to claim her as his anchor, creating a psychic bond that will prevent their inner demons from ever turning rogue. That changes overnight when she discovers that her psychic mate, or ‘anchor’, is a guy who’s rumored to be the most powerful demon in existence. Part of a small demon lair in North Las Vegas, tattooist Harper Wallis lives a pretty simple life. ![]() ![]() ![]() All five contenders run the gamut in both style and substance. ![]() Netflix produced three of the five documentary shorts nominees this year - “Audible,” “Lead Me Home,” and “Three Songs for Benazir - its most in any short film category. That is, until Netflix got into the fray. ![]() After scoring its first Best Picture contender with Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” in 2019, the streamer now has the clear frontrunner in Jane Campion’s nomination leader “The Power of The Dog.” With more modest budgets and an international bent, the short form categories have historically presented a wider spread of indies to studio-produced fare. With a dedicated awards operation and a seemingly infinite budget, Netflix has moved from Oscars dark horse to one to beat in just a few short years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clements points out that, while Astro Boy is regarded as a milestone for delivering twenty-five minutes a week, the Pinocchio series had already reached the halfway mark with 12.5 minutes a week – and yet, this achievement has been largely forgotten.Īs intriguing as this may be, Clements does not reinvent conventional history and still presents Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy as the beginning of anime as we know it. The book unearths The New Adventures of Pinocchio, a 1960 stop-motion series animated by Mochinga for Rankin/Bass (the text is careful to place the word “American” in quotation marks when discussing US productions outsourced to Japan). To pick just one example, he relates how a prestigious 1940s animated feature based on the story of the “Emperor’s New Clothes” had its plug pulled by Toho’s Tetsuzo Watanabe-a strident anti-Communist who would later quell a strike by recruiting a small army, including reconnaissance aircraft and tanks – on the grounds that the film was “riddled with redness”. Clements tells a fascinating set of tales from the era. ![]() ![]() ![]() What you need to keep pure is the part where Suzume is. But she finds herself, and that's a very important part of the story.īut there are some things where you cannot play with the truth, you need to keep it pure. I was very conscious that I didn't want to make it too much of a love story. One of the reasons why I made him (Sōta ) a chair is because that's what companionship means, rather than a boy versus girl dynamic. But I wanted to make sure that the love element between a girl and a boy is not too strong. ![]() She's on a journey where she meets many people, has many experiences, does meaningful things and the love story is also a part of that. It cannot just happen by meeting another person and falling in love. ![]() Suzume is someone who has suffered tremendous trauma, for her to overcome that trauma and find peace with herself. I wanted to make sure that it was about growth. So one thing that I've always felt about Suzume is that, unlike ‘Your NAME', and ‘Weathering With You’, it cannot just be a love story between a girl and a boy. In Suzume, your focus isn’t on romance between a girl or a boy but the intricate relationship that one shares with other people. ![]() Your previous works, like Your Name or Weathering With You, have been known worldwide for being a love story. ![]() ![]() The brain-damaged Hare Krishna who believed he had reached enlightenment. In his 1996 book An Anthropologist on Mars, Sacks tells the story of a 25-year-old named Greg, a Hare Krishna who had developed an enormous and destructive tumor, which eventually caused him to go blind. Here, Science of Us takes a look at some of Sacks’s most fascinating case studies. He most often did this by focusing on individual patient stories, creating in his books and essays moving portraits of the human beings behind often-bizarre neurological conditions. With his expressive and often lyrical writing, Sacks managed to explain the nuances of neurology in a way that proved captivating to a wide audience of scientists and nonscientists alike. ![]() On Sunday, the famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks died of cancer, specifically of a melanoma that had spread to his liver. ![]() |