![]() ![]() However, in 2003, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award. Vijayan was unlucky not to win India's principal literary prize, the Jnanpith, possibly because he did not endear himself to the political powers-that-be through his trenchant cartoons (Shankar's Weekly, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The Hindu, The Statesman). His Vijayan-land, a state of mind, is portrayed vividly in his work. He created a magical Malabar in his works, one where the mundane and the inspired lived side-by-side. ![]() While he lived outside Kerala for most of his adult life, spending time in Delhi and in Hyderabad (where his wife Teresa was from), he never forgot his beloved Palakkad, where the 'wind whistles through the passes and the clattering black palms'. He graduated from Victoria College in Palakkad and obtained a masters degree in English literature from Presidency College. The following year, Velukkutty was transferred and Vijayan joined the school at Koduvayur in Palakkad. ![]() Velukkutty was an officer in Malabar Special Police of the erstwhile Madras Province in British India.Formal schooling began at the age of twelve, when he joined Raja’s High School, Kottakkal in Malabar, directly in to sixth grade. Vijayan was born in Palakkad on July 2, 1930. ![]()
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![]() Despite his aristocratic background, he saw the triumph of democracy as inevitable and, although anxious about the potential threat of legislative tyranny, saw the American example as evidence that democracy could be reconciled with liberty. His conclusion was that: "there will be no middle way between the empire of democracy and the yoke of one man". ![]() In his famous book, Tocqueville, with the recent, tempestuous history of France weighing on his mind, examined the moderate, evolutionary character of American democracy and sought to identify the reasons behind its success. It focuses on the French aristocrat, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), who is renowned as the author of Democracy in America, his reflections on America gleaned during the nine months he spent there in 1831/32 in the company of his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont. They had come to study the American penal system, but Tocqueville was drawn to make a more thoroughgoing analysis of American society and politics. This is my second blog on aspects of Irish-American history and it may be considered an unusual one, in that its subject is neither Irish nor American. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alexis de Tocqueville in America and Ireland 1831-1835 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Police know so much about the killer - everything except who he is and why he committed such a violent crime. It was a frosty winter's night in Setagaya, Tokyo when eight-year-old Niina, her younger brother Rei and their parents Mikio and Yasuko were at home, preparing for the festivities.īut the Miyazawa family would never celebrate that day.Īll four were brutally murdered on Decemin a crime that shocked Japan and began a grim new chapter in the country's criminal history. The end of the year is one of the most momentous occasions in Japan, a chance to celebrate a fresh start and welcome new beginnings. ![]() Mikio Miyazawa, his wife Yasuko, and their children, 8-year-old Niina and 6-year-old Rei were murdered in their home in 2000. ![]() ![]() Once there, he finds a deteriorating situation, with a stable of American journalists on the verge of career and/or life transitions, who spend most of their time drinking rum, hustling for cash, and fomenting plans to flee the island once the paper folds. ![]() The novel’s protagonist is Paul Kemp, a freelancing journalist from New York who travels to Puerto Rico to work on The Daily News, a newspaper hemorrhaging money. I’ve always enjoyed his cutting language and stories that hover somewhere between an American Dream quest and an Altamont-style erosion of the hippie ideal, writing that exposes the grit below the surface sheen. ![]() The story was also adapted for a movie starring Johnny Depp, released in 2011.Īs something by way of disclosure, Thompson was a major influence on my writing and so there might be a little natural bias towards his work. Thompson had archived the manuscript after seven rejections from publishers and then became too swept up in the politics of the ‘60s to further pursue its publication. ![]() ![]() This novel has the shadow of legend behind it in that it’s something of a “lost novel,” having been written while Thompson was a 22-year-old writer in early 1960s Puerto Rico but not published until 1998, after actor Johnny Depp discovered it among Thompson’s papers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jade has attempted suicide before, and she tries again on the verge of finishing high school. A lonely part-Indian outcast obsessed with slasher movies, Jade lives with her abusive, alcoholic father in the small town of Proofrock, Idaho. ![]() Jade Daniels - whose real name is Jennifer - embodies teenage angst. However, the many classic slashers that splatter its pages are merely the top layer, and what hides beneath is just as dark, but far more real. Stephen Graham Jones' My Heart is a Chainsaw is a beautiful love letter to horror movies. ![]() |