Reader’s Mail

READERS’ MAIL

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IN PAGE 23 of triveni (No. 65/4) the remark “FAIR is foul and foul is fair” has been mentioned as from HAMLET. This remark occurs in MACBETH and not HAMLET.

- P. Bulliah, Cuddapah
This has been pointed out by several others also - Ed

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Your timely editorial TRIPLE STREAM stressing to revive the values and standards of our ancient India will certainly imbue the readers

- N. Varadarajan,
Dept. of Tamil
S V University, Tirupati

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Recently there was an article in “The Asian Age” where the writer had written that TRIVENI has stopped publication. I was sad then. I was very happy to see TRIVENI again. Long live TRIVENI.

- S.K. Padhi,
Dept. of English
Keonjhar (Orissa)

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After going through your article (Triple Stream) the spirit of emotion generated in me prompted to write to you. Now-a-days democracy exists in slogans only. We the fifth estate are the arm-chair critics but cannot ignore what is happening around. We have to do our bit of service to the country as the mother and motherland are greater than heaven.

- N.S. Raju,
Hyderabad

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I have one suggestion...to arrange an annual conference of Triveni writers at some place. It will certainly help us to develop a real consciousness of Triveni community and know each other much better

- R. Suryanarayana Murthy
Hyderabad

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As usual your editorial essay in the issue is most inspiring. I wish I had the maturity to write like you.

- Dr. R.K. Singh
Indian School of Mines,
Dhanbad.

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I have just read your editorial. It bespeaks depth of your appreciation of realities.

- R. S. Tiwary
Faizabad

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I got the December issue and, read your editorial on ‘Vanishing values’. It must be refreshing to jaded minds with sluggish sensibilities. It looks as if nothing shocks us, when our feelings get coarse.

-Dr. D. Anjaneyulu
Madras

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In the latest issue of TRIVENI, (65:4) Dr. Pramila Sastry’s essay EMILY DICKINSON’s KINSHIP WITH TELUGU POETS is a fine study in Comparative Literature. The first words of the last sentence are, perhaps, “the universality of mysticism”, not university. The learned scholar translated the Sanskrit adage. NANRISHIH KURUTE KAVYAM, with the words, one who is not a seer or saint cannot be a poet. Seer and saint are not synonyms. A Seer sees with his inner eye. A saint is any holy man who dedicates himself to God. He need not see with his inner eye. Rishi is a seer, not a saint. The epigraph to the essay on Srinivasa Ramanujam fromGray’s Elegy in its first and third lines, as all know, begins with “Full many a...” It is obvious that opening the lines with “Many a” is deliberate in following the footsteps of the great Indian orator who “corrected” Gray’s Elegy. A student of Literature knows that poets are “seers” at some level and our cerebral conceptions of “correctness” should not be carried to “the realms of gold”. This is not to question the greatness of the orator in his own realm. “Full Many” has a sonority and grandeur which the more “correct” formdoes not have.

- K.B. Sitaramayya

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I read his (Sri Vemaraju Narasimha Rao’s) article on Freedom Movement in the latest issue (No. 66/1) of Triveni which, is full of nice anecdotes. It is indeed nice to knows how to develop the theme at the village level, a sort of micro study. It is indeed fortunate that he is also taking care of Triveni along with you.

- R. Suryanarayana Murthy