Poets and pancakes

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1. Ashokamitran

2. Pancake makeup is name
for a cosmetic face powder
that has been compressed
into a cake and is applied as
a make-up base with a damp
sponge.
Pancake makeup is a type of
thick, heavy, oil- and wax-
based foundation makeup
that provides a great deal of
coverage

3. •it’s often only used for
theatrical performances
by people
•the purpose of pancake
makeup is to provide a
flawless and matte
finish that can be seen
from far away
•it won’t be affected by
sweat.

5. •one of the most influential figures in post-independent
Tamil literature.
•wrote over 200 short stories
•eight novels
•some 15 novellas
•a distinguished essayist and critic
•1996: Sahitya Akademi Award for Appavin Snegidhar, a
collection of short stories.

6. •In 1966, he left his work in the film industry, and has since
said that he felt he "should not continue with a system
which had built-in inequities."
•It was from 1966 that he became a full-time writer and he
took up the pseudonym of "Ashokamitran" .
•Style - His works are characterized by simplicity and
clarity of thought and drew from his professional and
personal experiences.

8. •He wrote about his experiences working in the film
industry in a set of columns for the Illustrated Weekly of
India.
•These columns later became his book, My Years with
Boss
•The 'boss' referred to was S.S. Vasan, the owner of
Gemini Studios
•His experiences here and his interaction with people from
the Tamil filmdom provided material for his work.

9. •From 1940 to 1969, the Gemini Studios of Madras was
the most influential film-producing organization of India
• Sahitya Akademi award-winning Tamil writer
Ashokamitran worked for the Gemini Studios from 1952 to
1966.
•A full twenty years after Ashokamitran renounced films,
poet-editor Pritish Nandy persuaded him to record his
reminiscences and the result was a series of articles
making up My Years with Boss.

10. •was an Indian journalist,
writer, advertiser, film
producer, director and
business tycoon.
•founder - Tamil-language
magazine Ananda Vikatan
•founder - the film
production company
Gemini Studios.

11. •a film studio in Chennai
•1940- S. S. Vasan bought a
film distribution concern at
an auction & renamed it.
•The name was chosen
because Mr. S.S. Vasan was
also involved in horse racing
and owned a successful race
horse named Gemini

12. •a Swedish-American film actress
during the 1920s and 1930s.
•nominated three times for the
Academy Award for Best Actress
•received an Academy Honorary
Award in 1954 for her "luminous
and unforgettable screen
performances."

13. •Gohar Mamajiwala
(1910 –1985), also
known as Miss Gohar,
was an Indian singer,
actress, producer and
studio owner.

14. • film actress,
Bharathanatyam dancer,
Carnatic singer, dance
choreographer and
parliamentarian.
•She was the first South
Indian actress to become a
Bollywood star
•she was conferred with the
Sangeet Natak Akademi
Award

15. Films
•Ek Duje ke Liye
•Coolie

16. • Commander-in-Chief of British
India.
•established the military and
political supremacy of the East
India Company in Bengal.
• established control over much
of India, and laid the foundation
of the entire British Raj
•a controversial figure

17. • It is the first British
fortress in India,
founded in 1644 in
Chennai.
•The fort currently
houses the Tamil Nadu
legislative assembly.
•The city evolved around
the fortress.

18. •located at Fort St George, is
the oldest Anglican church
in India
• the oldest British building in
India.
• The church is popularly
known as the 'Westminster
Abbey of the East'.

19. •each of a pair of glazed
doors in an outside wall,
serving as a window and
door, typically opening on
to a garden or balcony.
•"Julia walked out through
the open French windows
on to the terrace"

20. •a Tamil poet, lyricist, author,
actor and film director.
•wrote the Tamil novel Thillana
Mohanambal
•was awarded the Padma Shri
•Subbu functioned as the No. 2
of the Gemini Studios
•was a close associate of S. S.
Vasan

21. •Novel written Kothamangalam Subbu
•It was serialised in the Tamil magazine Ananda Vikatan in
1957–58.
• It tells the story of Shanmugasundaram, a nadaswaram player
who falls in love with Mohanambal, a Bharatanatyam dancer who
reciprocates his feelings, but unfortunate circumstances prevent
them from confessing their love for one another. How they
overcomes the obstacles forms the rest of the story.
•This novel was serialised in Ananda Vikatan in 1957-58.
•In 1967, it was also made into a movie.

22. JUDE JOSEPH, PGT ENGLISH, KVS

23. •a devadasi is a girl "dedicated"
to worship and service of a
deity/temple for the rest of her
life.
•The dedication takes place in
a ceremony.
•devadasis learned and
practiced classical Indian
artistic traditions like
Bharatanatyam and Odissi
dances.
•1988 - Devadasi system
outlawed in India

24. •Devulapalli Venkata
Krishnasastri
(1897– 1980)
•was a Telugu poet,
playwright and translator.
•He is known as Andhra
Shelley.

25. •an English poet, a dramatist,
an actor, a musician
•a member of the 1st Lok
Sabha from Vijayawada
constituency.
• He was the younger brother
of Sarojini Naidu
•was awarded of the Padma
Bhushan in 1973.

26. •S. D. Subramania Yogi,
popularly known as S. D.
S. Yogi was a Tamil
director, playwright,
screenplay writer and poet
from Tamil Nadu, India.
• He was given the title
"Bhala Bharathi" in
appreciation of his Tamil
literary skills

27. • a Protestant Christian
evangelist who founded
the Oxford Group.
•headed Moral Re-
Armament (MRA) for 23
years until his death in
1961, an international
moral and spiritual
movement

28. •In 1938 - nations were rearming for war, Oxford Group
member named Harry Blomberg, wrote of the need to re-
arm morally. Buchman liked the term, and launched a
campaign for Moral and Spiritual Re-Armament in east
London.
• More than just a new name for the Oxford Group, Moral
Re-Armament (or MRA) signalled a new commitment on
Buchman's part to try to change the course of nations.

29. •a Right wing group
•MRA, the result of
Buchman’s worldwide call
for moral and spiritual re-
armament, urged
Christians of all stripes to
courageously face
impending war and
totalitarian ideologies.

30. •Jotham Valley is a melodrama of
two quarelling brothers, whose
hatred brings misery to all their
neighbours, particularly when one
brother deprives the valley of water,
because he legally controls the
water rights. In the end, the key of
truth opens the hardened heart of
the brother and he permits the
water to gush forth and the brothers
also make up.
Frank Buchman with lead actors of the
play

31. JUDE JOSEPH, PGT ENGLISH, KVS
•deals with human and
ideological clashes during
a tense strike.
•an industrial drama, was
one of his most successful.
• It was translated into 16
languages and
subsequently filmed.

32. •Encounter was a literary
magazine, founded in 1953
by poet Stephen Spender
and journalist Irving Kristol.
•The magazine ceased
publication in 1991
• it was a largely Anglo-
American intellectual and
cultural journal

33. •published in the United
Kingdom
•it associated with the anti-
Stalinist left.
•it received covert funding
from the Central Intelligence
Agency
•when this became known
Spender resigned.

34. •Sir Stephen Harold
Spender (1909 – 1995) -
an English poet, novelist,
and essayist
•he concentrated on
themes of social injustice
and the class struggle in
his work.

35. •he attended Oxford University
•he fought in the Spanish Civil War.
•was editor of Encounter magazine
from 1953 to 1966
•Spender was professor of English
at University College, London.
•Imp Works -Twenty Poems (1930),
Vienna (1934), The Still Centre
(1939), Poems of
Dedication(1946), and The
Generous Days (1971).

36. •Stephen Spender's
autobiography
•contains vivid portraits of
Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats, T.
S. Eliot, Lady Ottoline Morrell,
W. H. Auden, Christopher
Isherwood and many other
prominent literary figures.

37. §a book that collects together
six essays with the
testimonies of a number of
ex-communist writers and
journalists.
§The common theme of the
essays is the authors'
disillusionment with and
abandonment of communism.

38. •a French author
• the Nobel Prize in Literature
(1947)
•author of more than fifty books
•Leftist
•Imp Works
ØThe Immoralist
ØStrait Is the Gate

39. •an American author of novels, short
stories, poems, and non-fiction.
•racial themes, especially related to the
plight of African Americans during the
late 19th to mid-20th centuries
•his work helped change race relations
in the United States in the mid-20th
century.
•Imp Works:
ØUncle Tom's Children,
ØNative Son
ØBlack Boy
ØThe Outsider

40. •was the pseudonym of
Secondino Tranquilli
•a political leader, Italian novelist,
and short-story writer,
• world-famous during World War
II for his powerful anti-Fascist
novels
•Leftist
•He was nominated for the Nobel
prize for literature ten times.
•Novel - Fontamara

41. •Hungarian-British author and journalist
•wrote novels, memoirs, biographies
and numerous essays.
•Koestler joined the Communist Party of
Germany until, disillusioned by
Stalinism, he resigned in 1938
•In 1940 he published his novel
Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian
work that gained him international fame.
•Koestler espoused many political
causes

42. •was a Jewish-American
journalist.
•Leftist
•The God that Failed (1949),
•a Life of Mahatma Gandhi
(1950), basis for the
Academy Award-winning film
Gandhi (1982),
•a Life of Lenin

43. JUDE JOSEPH, PGT ENGLISH, KVS