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If
I am out of my mind, it's all right with me,
thought Moses Herzog.
-Saul
Bellow (1915-2005)
An
International Literary Journal
VOLUME
4 NUMBER 2 DECEMBER
2005
Edited
by:
Dr.
Santosh Kumar
Binding: Paperback
(pp: 516 with a separate section of authors bio)
ISSN:
0972-6004 $25
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Publisher:
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Pub. Date: Dec. 2005
Condition: New
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From
The Editor
Best
Wishes for a Happy New Year! Welcome to Taj
Mahal Review, December 2005! London blasts on
7\7 and Delhi blasts on Saturday October 29, 05
prove once again the brutality of terrorism. The
ethical poverty caused by a deplorable loss of
human values, the unfortunate triumph of
consumerism and materialism, worship of money and
machine- all these make my heart bleed, yet I hope
the bright and luminous artists will one day find
an answer to the vices of contemporary reality.
What a pity that fascist and terrorist powers and
values are rising in such monstrous and terrifying
times!
The recent hurricanes in USA
caused the death of so many persons. On behalf of
the whole Cyberwit staff I express my anguish and
sorrow, and pray for peace to the bereaved
families. Another tragic incident was a terrible
earthquake killing a great number of innocent
persons in Kashmir in India. It is possible that
the carbon dioxide by increasing the earth's
temperature and thereby disturbing the ecological
balance, has resulted in such disastrous
hurricanes. Some kind of policy is the need of the
present times, so that the tragedy is never
repeated.
Congratulations to Harold
Pinter (b.1930), British playwright who was
awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. On
October 13, 05 the Swedish Academy remarked
"in his plays [Harold Pinter] uncovers the
precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry
into oppression's closed rooms." His
"comedies of menace" create "Pinteresque"
atmosphere where the words and language are 'rearguard
attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves'.
Beware of "unfools of
unbeing"! The best elucidation of this line
by ee. cummings is by Norman Friedman:
"people who are too stereotyped to be
eccentric-people who are too dead spiritually to
exist at all and who call alive individual
fools" (ee. cummings the art of his poetry).
I have found it a rich
experience to read the following lines from
"The Second Coming" by W. B.Yeats
(1865-1939):
Things fall apart; the center
cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the
world,
The blood-dimmed tide is
loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is
drowned;
The best lack all conviction,
while the worst
Are full of passionate
intensity.
Poetry is the only panacea to
end all the evils infecting mankind. I'm
indebted to the authors and artists for their
invaluable support and help. I thank all
subscribers and benefactors. Without their
cooperation, the publication of Taj Mahal
Review is not possible.
SANTOSH KUMAR
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