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“A corpse can be revived,” says Frank Hunter to Andrew Crocker-Harris in Terence Rattigan’s one-act play, The Browning Version . Andrew is a martyr because he refuses to assert himself where required.  He knows that his wife, Millie, is unfaithful to him.  In fact she enjoys taunting him by telling him about her affairs with his colleagues.  Andrew continues to tolerate her because he thinks divorcing her would be “another grave wrong” he would do to her.  What’s the other wrong he had done her?  Frank asks.  “To marry her,” answers Andrew. Andrew and Millie are total mismatches.  Millie is sensuous and earthy.  Andrew is intellectual and ethereal.  “Two kinds of love,” Andrew explains.  “Worlds apart as I know now, though when I married her I didn’t think they were incompatible.”  Andrew wanted affection and companionship, the emotional delights of love.  Millie wanted the physical delights.  Andrew thought that the kind of love he required was superior and never imagined

Source: Here Let us go then, you and I, When the evening threatens with phantoms of nightmares rising amid the gongs and chants in the Baba’s kingdom. Let us go, through certain half-deserted corridors, The muttering retreats of restless souls in search of what they know not. Netajis and Lalajis meet to conspire, Having donned the mask to suit the affair, Baba ensconced himself on god’s throne, His women standing around with smiles on ready-to-serve masks. The chanting rose in the huge pavilion Like ghosts in search of their places of rest While the gongs resounded in the vacuum  of yearning chanting hearts Baba stood up having signed the latest deal With Netajis and Lalajis And the women’s masks smiled The eyes met furtively. And I have known the eyes already, known them all – The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase. Baba dictates formulas to chanters and gongers Netaji to chelas Lalaji to bankers Women to Bab

Image Courtesy: theodysseyonline Human beings make a difference even to the planet.  According to geologists, human beings have altered the fate of the planet.  The earth has now entered a new geological epoch which they call Anthropocene.  The 12000 year-old Holocene has come to an end. Human activities have altered the very nature of the planet.  It is no more the mountains and their glaciers, or the oceans and the cyclones, that determine the fate of terrestrial life.  Man has reasons to be proud of himself: it is he who shapes the destiny of the earth. Should he be ashamed of himself, rather? Human activities have increased the acidity in the oceans which in turn will make the marine creatures to evolve and develop shells to withstand the man-made poison in the saline waters.  Geologists predict that future limestone will come from the shells of these marine creatures. Nitrogen content in the atmosphere has been affected.  River deltas have shrunk.  The very