Shreekumar varma biography of williams

On March 22nd, 2015, Abraham Eraly, the little-known master-historian based in Puducherry, suffered a paralytic attack which rendered the right side of his body useless. He had been living alone in an apartment in Sarathambal Nagar in the coastal town for nearly four years. In recent months he working on what he thought was the most important project of his life. “The project was on Indian culture, on how it was a glorious culture once, and the events and circumstances that lead to its present situation. He told me it was very important to him, and that he was sad that he might not be able complete the project because of his paralysis,” says his brother George Ivan.

Eraly was admitted to Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Pondicherry following the paralysis. His wife Sita Eraly lives in Pondicherry too, and was helping him through his illness. His son, Satish Eraly, flew down from the US to look after his father. But at 81, having lab

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“Culture is Ordinary” - Raymond Williams              

Introduction

Raymond Williams was a decisive influence on the formation of cultural studies. This skrivelse, titled, ‘Culture is Ordinary’, (1958) emphasises that, culture is ordinary, in every society and in every mind. To Williams, the word ‘culture’ meant both a ‘whole way of life’ [synonymous with everyday life], and, the ‘forms of signification’ [novels, films, advertising, television, etc] that circulate within a society.

A Retort to Eliot’s Views on Culture

T. S. Eliot, in his ‘Notes Towards the Definition of Culture’ roots for an elitist perspective to culture. He argues that, only a minority fully engage with high culture, that fryst vatten essential to prevent social disintegration. Ultimately only a kind of cultural elite can preserve and maintain the culture necessary for a civilised society to exist, says

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Scion of Travancore royal family abducted

CHENNAI: A suspected terror group in Senegal reportedly abducted Shreekumar Varma, a descendant of the royal family of Travancore and a journalist and author who lives in Chennai. While the Union ministry of external affairs confirmed the abduction and said it was “looking into this serious matter“, the city police said they had contacted the authorities in Dakar who said they had freed Varma on Thursday and confirmed that he was safe.
Varma went missing in mysterious circumstances after embarking on a trip to Senegal to seal a transaction with an unknown person. He has gone to Se negal to sell some of the Raja Ravi Varma works that were part of family's collection, sources said.
Varma, who was carrying some of the paintings of his famed ancestor, arrived in Dakar on Wednesday and went missing in the Senegal capital. The Chennai police registered a case after Varma's son Karthik Varma met commissioner T K Rajendran on Wednes