Happy Deepavali to the Singampalli Family!! (yes, yet another Subhaakaankshalu post! :-))October 27, 2008
Deepavali Subhaakaankshalu!
Happy Deepavali to the Singampalli Family!! (yes, yet another Subhaakaankshalu post! :-))October 24, 2008
Real nice ones, Krupa and Pinni- specially Pinni's notes. Pinni, The Pied Piper sound interesting- I will try to get hold of it, although I doubt if it is in print. Ranga babai, Gopal babai, Attha-your list? Sudha? Seenu?Vidya?
Kanth, Mrudula, Lavanya, Manasa, Sumana: you have to post on this topic- no excuses! I really want to know your top 10. Dont worry about the list being simple...even my list was simple.
my favourites
These are my choices.
they may be repeated bcoz of their universal appeal
uncle Tom
Dr.Pearson
Sydney Carton
Sherloc Holmes
Dumbledore
Snape
Sindbad,childhood facination
Othello
JEEVES
Hero and Heroine in Birthday gift ,O.Henry story
Telugu
gireesam,budugu,kakki,m.ramanas mother,
ganapathi,athadu aame hero and heroine
ramadasu,karna,oormila in ramayanam
buchhibabu in sweethome
they may be repeated bcoz of their universal appeal
uncle Tom
Dr.Pearson
Sydney Carton
Sherloc Holmes
Dumbledore
Snape
Sindbad,childhood facination
Othello
JEEVES
Hero and Heroine in Birthday gift ,O.Henry story
Telugu
gireesam,budugu,kakki,m.ramanas mother,
ganapathi,athadu aame hero and heroine
ramadasu,karna,oormila in ramayanam
buchhibabu in sweethome
my fav characters
1.SIDNEY CARTON in Tale of two cities(an epitome of love and sacrifice)
2.Dr WATSON in sherlock holmes(you need a whetting stone to sharpen yr intellect i.e watson to SH.)
3.OTHELLO a real life MALE MAN
4.HOWARD in pied piper by Nevil shute(It is about John Sidney Howard,who goes on a fishing holiday in France after the Second World War breaks out, but before the fall of France. Entrusted with the care of two British children, and overtaken by events, he attempts to return to England and safety. His journey is hampered by the unexpected speed of the Nazi invasion of France, and by the fact that he continually finds himself entrusted with the custody of more and more young children. Eventually, he is stranded in Nazi occupied France and he is fully aware that, as an Englishman, he is an enemy to the occupying forces.While attempting to get passage on a fishing boat, he and his charges are discovered by the Germans. However, in a final plot twist, the German commandant allows them to escape on the condition that they take his niece with them and send her to relatives in the USA. His niece is apparently orphaned and had a Jewish mother.The tale is told by an acquaintance he meets in a London club.
5.MOTHER in Gorky's MOTHER.
6.PAPILLON (Papillon is a memoir by convicted felon Henri Charrière.)even today the cruelty remains the same towards convicts (guantanama bay and other such prisons around the world.)
7.MISS MARPLE.
8.MR. MICABER (if your income is one pound and expenditure is 19 shillings you are a happy man if your income is a pound and your expenditure a guinea, desolation and ruin)
expl. 1pound=20 shillings,1guinea=21 shillings.
The present day CREDIT CULTURE is throwing many micabers-not into debtor's prisons but into a worse situation of suicides.
9.MAN IN BLACK--(The Character Of The Man In Black from Citizen Of The World- Letter xxvi by Oliver Goldsmith) see here. I am reminded of my father-in-law who was always a lot of thunder but was very sympathetic and generous to the very people at whom he yelled.
10.Dr JOSEPH PEARSON in Final Diagnosis by Arthur hailey--The disillusionment of a man at the end of his career, after the realization that all his achievements are meaningless because he could not accept changes, is a situation one would not like to face, yet, it is inevitable in each one’s career.One cannot disregard the fundamental rule of nature, “what is new now will later be old”; you can disregard it but at your own peril.
TELUGU
1.PITCHAIH the contented happy man in amaravathi kadhalu.wish I were he.
2.BHIMA and ARJUNA in mahabharatha. It seems one day some one had a doubt who are great? Rama's brothers or Dhramaraju's.sahasam souryam kaligi kevalam bhrathrudharmaniki talavoggina Bhimarjunule goppavallu.
3.THE WIFE in "Midhunam". Actually my mother said the same thing.
4.GANAPATHI(talli verri garabam tho lokampokada theliyakunda poyina amayakudu)
5.MADHURAVANI IN KANYASULKAM
6.RAMADASU IN MALAPALLI
7.AMMA in NAMINI's kadhalu
8.HEROINE in SALIM's VENDIMEGHAM (who fights and wins against gender discrimination)
9.VISHALA RAO in SWEET HOME.you see such characters every day everywhere.
10.DEVAKI in BHAGAVATHAM.biddalundiu devaki godduralu emi lekane yasoda kannathalli.kanatame kaani kadupu theepi pondaleni unfortunate woman.
2.Dr WATSON in sherlock holmes(you need a whetting stone to sharpen yr intellect i.e watson to SH.)
3.OTHELLO a real life MALE MAN
4.HOWARD in pied piper by Nevil shute(It is about John Sidney Howard,who goes on a fishing holiday in France after the Second World War breaks out, but before the fall of France. Entrusted with the care of two British children, and overtaken by events, he attempts to return to England and safety. His journey is hampered by the unexpected speed of the Nazi invasion of France, and by the fact that he continually finds himself entrusted with the custody of more and more young children. Eventually, he is stranded in Nazi occupied France and he is fully aware that, as an Englishman, he is an enemy to the occupying forces.While attempting to get passage on a fishing boat, he and his charges are discovered by the Germans. However, in a final plot twist, the German commandant allows them to escape on the condition that they take his niece with them and send her to relatives in the USA. His niece is apparently orphaned and had a Jewish mother.The tale is told by an acquaintance he meets in a London club.
5.MOTHER in Gorky's MOTHER.
6.PAPILLON (Papillon is a memoir by convicted felon Henri Charrière.)even today the cruelty remains the same towards convicts (guantanama bay and other such prisons around the world.)
7.MISS MARPLE.
8.MR. MICABER (if your income is one pound and expenditure is 19 shillings you are a happy man if your income is a pound and your expenditure a guinea, desolation and ruin)
expl. 1pound=20 shillings,1guinea=21 shillings.
The present day CREDIT CULTURE is throwing many micabers-not into debtor's prisons but into a worse situation of suicides.
9.MAN IN BLACK--(The Character Of The Man In Black from Citizen Of The World- Letter xxvi by Oliver Goldsmith) see here. I am reminded of my father-in-law who was always a lot of thunder but was very sympathetic and generous to the very people at whom he yelled.
10.Dr JOSEPH PEARSON in Final Diagnosis by Arthur hailey--The disillusionment of a man at the end of his career, after the realization that all his achievements are meaningless because he could not accept changes, is a situation one would not like to face, yet, it is inevitable in each one’s career.One cannot disregard the fundamental rule of nature, “what is new now will later be old”; you can disregard it but at your own peril.
TELUGU
1.PITCHAIH the contented happy man in amaravathi kadhalu.wish I were he.
2.BHIMA and ARJUNA in mahabharatha. It seems one day some one had a doubt who are great? Rama's brothers or Dhramaraju's.sahasam souryam kaligi kevalam bhrathrudharmaniki talavoggina Bhimarjunule goppavallu.
3.THE WIFE in "Midhunam". Actually my mother said the same thing.
4.GANAPATHI(talli verri garabam tho lokampokada theliyakunda poyina amayakudu)
5.MADHURAVANI IN KANYASULKAM
6.RAMADASU IN MALAPALLI
7.AMMA in NAMINI's kadhalu
8.HEROINE in SALIM's VENDIMEGHAM (who fights and wins against gender discrimination)
9.VISHALA RAO in SWEET HOME.you see such characters every day everywhere.
10.DEVAKI in BHAGAVATHAM.biddalundiu devaki godduralu emi lekane yasoda kannathalli.kanatame kaani kadupu theepi pondaleni unfortunate woman.
October 23, 2008
My top 10
These are the characters that made a lasting impression on me. I remember these characters off and on in some context or other, even when I have not read those books in a while.
These are in no particular order of importance.
1) Miss Marple
2) Dagney Taggart from Atlas Shrugged3) Jennifer Cavalleri from Love Story
4) Lord Emsworth5) Uncle Tom
6) Albus Dumbledore
7) Sherlock Holmes
8) Dilbert, who personifies the dysfunctions of American work life
9) Jeeves
10) Obelix
6) Albus Dumbledore
7) Sherlock Holmes
8) Dilbert, who personifies the dysfunctions of American work life
9) Jeeves
10) Obelix
BTW, the no Telugu rule is a bit unfair, since there are a lot of Telugu characters I would like to share as well, so here they go, my quick top 10, again in no particular order.
1) Barrister Parvateesam
2) Pichayya garu in Amaravati Kathalu3) The couple in Sri Ramana's Mithunam
4) Madhuravani in Kanyasulkam5) Sankarappa in Vadla Ginjalu
6) Satyam in Janaki Vimukti7) Vimala in Sweet Home
8) Budugu9) Kantham from Kantham Kathalu
10) Bavagadu from Amaravati Kathalu
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