pic: from amazon.com The bell ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral, the hunchback Quasimodo, was created in the story by Victor Hugo to emphasize injustice and superficiality of the bourgeois. Who invokes in the reader a deep and violent sense of sympathy, tragedy and social guilt. A foundling, Quasimodo who was one eyed with a…

What in the world makes a woman give up her entire life for her child, struggle and sacrifice for her offspring? This question I’ve asked over and over again. I have yet to find an explanation. This question popped into my head recently while reading M.T. Vasudevan Nair’s novel,  Naalukettu. It was written in my…

I know this sounds a lot like a cop-out. And it is. I am not one who usually is at a loss for words but yesterday was one of those days when I couldn’t write a syllable. Something to the effect of spirit being willing and all that. Anyway, at the heart of my favorite…

It a place created by J.R.R.Tolkien and immortalized by the way by Peter Jackson. No. Its not a place, its a hellhole. The realm of lord Sauron, the epitome of evil and power gluttony. I remember reading Lord of the Rings the first time and shuddering as I read the descriptions of the dark, dark…