Narendra Madhuranthakam

Dr. Boya Subramanyam Reddy, a physician who hails from Thondavada, a small village near Tirupati and who had settled down in Mineral wells, a village of around 80 miles from Dallas, USA requested me to translate a book entitled   Meditation   written by Eknath Eswaran an Indian born spiritual teacher who established the Blue Mountain     Centre of Meditation in California, USA. Then he published it ( Dhyanam) under the banner of Subhashini Prachranalu in 1998. I had the acquaintance with Dr. Subramanyam Reddy through my father. When my father visited USA on the invitation of TANA conference    held at Chicago in 1995 Dr. Subramanyam Reddy contacted him and invited him to Mineral Wells. He introduced himself as an ardent fan of my father’s stories and my father, in one of the introductions he    wrote to a short story collection, related the interesting way he travelled to Mineral Wells from Chicago by a domestic flight and how Ms. Subhashini, the ...

Of late the authorities of higher education made it compulsory that all disciplines in the universities should have a separate paper on human values and ethics. It is a good move to humanize all science and engineering students but the irony is that even the disciplines of literatures weren’t exempted from that. That literature itself is nothing but an artistic way of asserting the human values and ethics is the basic     truth to be noticed but the way that it is enforced on the contemporary generation of students of higher education asserts the lacuna of a system which     was in vague hither to. This situation further demands the importance of an assessment of the educational system that emerged after independence. My great grandfather migrated to the far north of erstwhile North Arcot District of British India from the far south of the same district around 1850s on the request of the people of a village there to teach them education. They provided him with a smal...