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books of English are of poor quality why?
The
problem is the flight tickets of NCERT staff, because air port stalls stock
only these authors.
Reading many books on a subject confuses, clarifies,
coruscates and leads to some clarity.
Books like KA help to make us understand how to make a research
before making interpretation of mythology.
Recently I have been in touch with another excellent
author over mail, in fact we have been exchanging mails on a weekly basis, she
does similarly excellent works on culture, her name is Wiesna mond kozlowska,
my goodness her research work on Masks and their significance is extraordinary,
her home page is :
She has send many of her articles and speeches.
Books must be read topic wise, for example , now I
am in a spree of reading books on linguistics, logic, thought process and in
brief the connectivity and mutual influence or impact of these three. I plan to read 50 books and I am at
the 33rd , the triology of Steven Pinker
and before that I was reading 102 books on Science ,its impact, its
discoveries, its philosophy, its instruments, its politics, its fraudulent
claims by impersonators, its limitations and area where it is still unsure and
how many of the existing well established and accepted scientific theories are
intrinsically faulty etc and most importantly how it managed to overcome the
religious bias in the west against it initially and helped the whole of human
race benefit through its many methods, the references to great scientific
discoveries in ancient Sanskrit texts etc.
This type of reading lots of books on a topic confuses,
clarifies, coruscates and leads to some clarity.
Whether it is books or bondas enough quantity
automatically helps you to at least know the quality.
I personally feel that Devdutt Patnaik sometimes,
like the extremist in the right wing, resorts to doctrinaire justifications of
everything that is in Hindu scriptures irrespective of its contextual
significance and intrinsic value, in fact that can be sometimes counter-
productive as was Wendy's obsession to make mythology to undergo initially too
much of critical analysis, then subjecting it to Freudian analysis. She needs
to read Steve Maraboli, “Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by
analysis… decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!”
Books too must be viewed from the author's
contextual perspective and evaluated based on its intrinsic merit.
If we subject books under that spanner then Mills
and Boon would be better than some modern
authors , actually they are doing a
great disservice to writing as most our bollywood and Tollywood movies are
doing to the art of film making.
One such latest ambiguity personified stuff is 'Half- girl friend' the title itself is
ambiguous which one is half whether girl or friend or the pursuit of the girl
by the implied male or what is half something, at least, had he consulted me I would advised him to read Valery Adam's book on
word formation involving adjectives.
In books too we must look for serious content that
enhances our mental faculties and help at least our perception, if not
enlightenment.
It is so unfortunate that our texts books are filled
with crap written by some modern writers. Why not have passages of Sri
Aurobindo, Swami vivekanada , Srinivasa sastry,
Sir CP or Rajaji or S. Radhakrishnan or Munshi or Ambedkar even language wise all these people were far
superior.
The
problem is the flight tickets of NCERT staff, because air port stalls stock
only these authors.
In our days, though we studied in Tamil medium
schools we had English text books studded with essays and passages by Aldous Huxley,
G.K. Chesterton, Leigh Hunt, Stephen Leacock, Russell, C.E.M. Joad, R.W.
Emerson etc
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