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I really miss those days with my students, though i am now teaching again here in Bangalore....
I have very severe low back ache ...the doc says its spondylosis....and have been advised to stay of the comp ....
So, guys, i wont be around for sometime...maybe when my backs better...let's see...what happens...
Pather Panchali is Ray's debut film, and the first film of his 'The Apu trilogy'. The remaining two films of the trilogy, Aparajito and Apur Sansar, follow Apu as the son, the man and finally the father. Pather Panchali has a universal humanist appeal. Though the film deals with the grim struggle for survival by a poor family, it has no trace melodrama. Some critics found the film to be too slow. Satyajit Ray wrote about the slow pace -
"The cinematic material dictated a style to me, a very slow rhythm determined by nature, the landscape, the country. The script had to retain some of the rambling quality of the novel because that in itself contained a clue to the authenticity: life in a poor Bengali village does ramble."
What is projected in stead is the respect for human dignity.
One of the most stunning first films in movie history. Ray is a welcome jolt of flesh, blood and spirit."
- Jack Kroll, Newsweek
" As deeply beautiful and plainly poetic as any movie ever made. Rare and exquisite."
- Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. Weekly
- President's Gold & Silver Medals, New Delhi, 1955
- Best Human Document, Cannes 1956
- Diploma Of Merit, Edinbugh, 1956
- Vatican Award, Rome, 1956
- Golden Carbao, Manila, 1956
- Best Film and Direction, San Francisco, 1957
- Selznik Golden Laurel, Berlin, 1957
- Best Film, Vancouver, 1958
- Critics' Award - Best Film, Stratford, (Canada), 1958
- Best Foreign Film, New York, 1959
- Kinema Jumpo Award: Best Foreign Film, Tokyo 1966
- Bodil Award: Best Non-European Film of the Year, Denmark, 1966
- Aparajito (The Unvanquished, 1956)
- Apur Sansar (The World of Apu, 1959)
taken from :
http://www.satyajitray.org/films/pather.htm
A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God’s attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family.
Find them.
Love them.
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness.
Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance.
It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.
I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
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| Born | December 18, 1879 |
| Died | June 29, 1940 (aged 60) Muralto, Switzerland |
| Nationality | German/Swiss |
| Field | painting |
| Training | Academy of Fine Arts, Munich |
| Movement | expressionism cubism surrealism |
| Famous works | many well-known works, including Fish Magic, Golden Fish, Zitronen, and Viaducts Break Ranks |
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| Birth name | Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin |
| Born | 7 June 1848(1848-06-07) Paris, France |
| Died | 8 May 1903 (aged 54) Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia |
| Field | painting, engraving |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism, Primitivism |
Meet Carlos ....the best dog in the whole world..the most intelligent, and most loving. He loves children and playing with them. He spends his time chasing crows and barking at people in other people's homes, but if a stranger enters my home, he will bark and chase him but he will soon make friends too...He's no watchdog...but something much more. He's the most important member of my family and we cant do without him.
O Lord, don't let me once forget,
How I love my trusty pet -
Help me learn to disregard
canine craters in my yard.
Show me how to be a buddy
even when my sofa's muddy.
Don't allow my pooch to munch
postal carriers for lunch.
Shield my neighbor's cat from view,
guide my steps around the doo.
Train me not to curse and scowl
when it's puppy's night to howl.
Grant I shan't awake in fear
with a cold nose in my ear.
Give me patience without end -
Help me be "A DOG'S BEST FRIEND."
-Author Unknown
