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Beware the loss of biodiversity - Prof. P. J. Sanjeeva Raj Beware the loss of biodiversity - JS.N  (04/12/2022) Beware the loss of biodiversity, a newspaper article published in The Hindu by Prof. P. J. Sanjeeva Raj in 2012. It is about the declining biodiversity and the non-commitment of human’s actions in preserving it. Biodiversity is a term used to describe all the species in one region or ecosystem. Biodiversity refers to every living thing, including plants, bacteria, animals, and humans. It provides all basic needs for healthy survival including oxygen, food, medicines, fibre, fuel, energy, fertilisers, fodder and waste-disposal, etc.  Prof. P. J. Sanjeeva Raj in his article had pointed out the importance of preserving biodiversity. He tries to make people aware of the greater threat which mankind will face due to the loss of biodiversity by quoting Professor Edward O. Wilson's views on biodiversity. According to Professor Edward O. Wilson, this continuing loss of biodiversi

Digging by Seamus Heaney: Poem Summary JS.N  (2/09/2019) Digging Digging by Seamus Heaney was first published in 1966 in his poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist. He deals with the themes of root consciousness and respect to the ancestors in this poem. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker is sitting at his desk with a pen that is resting in his hand. He compares the pen to the gun with the use of simile.  “Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests as snug as gun." The speaker implies that he has been digging with the pen which is as powerful as the gun. Suddenly he is diverted by the continuous sound of digging outside by his father. His father is digging potato field with the help of spades. He travels back to his past, as he digs into his memories, he finds the tradition of digging in both his father and grandfather. Ultimately, the speaker comes back to the present being ready for the writing. He proudly declares that his father was the d

Difference between Literature and History: A short view on What a Literature can be -JS.N (10/03/2019) Literature is creative and history is merely a factual. Most of historical writing thus tend to be half history. Either conscious neglect will be there or exageration. So creativity comes in. Justifying foregrounding needs creative portrayal. Lot of selection goes in to writing history. What data to include, what to foreground, what is the motto behind writing that history are all the factors that rest with the author. Both the subjects are inter-related in the sense that literature deals with the past, as in stream of consiousness, counter factual imaginations, memoires, travelogues, biography...  And any day we will prefer reading an interesting history book than a collection of facts. So writing style and diction does play a role. For that matter, any written script can be literature. Your grocery bill can tell me your culinary preferance, your financial status, y

The Looking Glass -Kamala Das  A review by JS N. (31/01/2019)  The Looking Glass is a poem from Kamala Das’s collections of poem entitled “The Descendants”. It is her second volume of poetry which deals with the Nihilism or Pessimism: “We are not going to be ever redeemed or made new ”. The Looking Glass is also included under the term nihilism. For she produced the poem in a sarcastic tone, mocking the cruelty of man towards his counterpart . The Looking Glass is a short lyrical poem of twenty four lines. It is spontaneously produced, that it contains no break in lines and there is no specified rhyme scheme or rhythm in these linked lines. However she introduced some simile and metaphor to draw the attention of her readers especially females .                          On getting into the title of the poem, “The Looking Glass” literally means “mirror”. But an analytical view of the title would recognize the word “glass” in itself means “mirror”, coming from its root