Alka Nigam July 16 2014: The Times of India (Delhi) http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=THE-SPEAKING-TREE-English-Poets-And-Advaita-Vedanta-16072014020064 Literature is also philosophy. Though some critics differ, there are innumerable literary examples of visionary poets revealing primeval truths. These poetic revelations are universal spiritual truths to which no one person, age or religion can lay exclusive claim. Of a radically different milieu […]
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The Ghats of Banaras
http://www.speakingtree.in/article/the-ghats-of-banaras SPEAKING TREE, Times of India, May 25th 2012 Sitting on the ghats of the ‘city of lights’ and watching the Ganga flow quiety is a serene experience, writes Alka Nigam Kashi, the ‘city of lights’ is said to be the abode of Shiva. The Ganga, on its way to Gangasagar, takes a deep curve […]
Only Deshi English please! This is BHU
Published in Hindustan Times, Varanasi Plus Edition Guest Column Dr Alka Nigam Reader, Department on English, BHU In spite of being labelled backward, traditional to the core with illiterate masses, we Banarasis’ nonetheless speak English that is hundred percent intelligible. From international standards it is as respectable as the English spoken by a German, an […]
Truth, Shiva And Beauty
The Speaking Tree Times of India, New Delhi March 28th 2011 In Hindu thought artha, dharma, kama and moksha are considered the four goals of life. These concepts are the undercurrents of the stream of all life and are not contradictory. Artha and kama as the urges of human instinct represent the […]
Varanasi’s dirt is India’s dirt
Guest Column Hindustan Times, Lucknow, Friday, March 27, 2009 page 3 Prof Alka Nigam Department of English, BHU There was this slogan sometime ago IGNITE THE CHANGE given for the people of Mumbai and Delhi just after one of those bomb blasts in Delhi. Mumbai, being a metro city, can afford to […]
