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Poets and Pancakes
Ashokmitran
K.Parameswari,PGT (English)
Kendriya Vidyalaya,
NO1,Jalahalli,Bangalore
Karnataka
Ashoka Mitran
• Ashoka Mitran (born
September 22, 1931)
is one of the most
influential figures in
post-independent
Tamil literature.
Ashoka Mitran
• Ashoka Mitran (born September 22, 1931) is
one of the most influential figures in post-
independent Tamil literature.
• He began his literary career with the prize
winning play "Anbin Parisu", followed by many
short stories, novellas and novels.
• A distinguished essayist and critic, he is the
editor of the literary journal "Kanaiyaazhi".
• He has written over 200 short stories, eight
novels, some 15 novellas besides other prose
writings.
• Most of his works have also been translated into
English.
• He worked for more than a decade at the Gemini
Studios.
• His experinces here and his interaction with
people from the Tamil filmdom later took the
form of his book "My Years with Boss".
• It was from 1966 that he became a full-time
writer and he took up the pseudonym of
"Ashokamitran" .
• In the 1980s most of his works were translated
into English and he and his works became well-
known all over India.
• Some of his works were translated into other
European languages and most Indian languages
as well.
Pancake
• Pancake was the
brand name of the
make up material that
Gemini Studios
brought in Truck
loads.
Gemini Studios
• Gemini Studios was launched when
Thiruthuraipoondi Subramanian Srinivasan
(aka. S.S.Vasan) (1903-1969) bought a film
distribution concern at an auction and
renamed it as Gemini Pictures also known as
Gemini Studios.
• Gemini Studios served as a breeding ground
for innumerable artists and technicians for
the south Indian film Industry.
• The Gemini twins became a household
symbol and the Gemini flyover was named
after the original studio at that junction.
Miss Gohar
• Date of Birth:
• 1910, Lahore, British India [now in
Pakistan] more
• Date of Death:
• 28 September 1985 more
• Alternate Names:
• Gohar Karnataki
Greta Garbo
• Greta Garbo (18 September 1905
– 15 April 1990) was a Swedish
actress during Holloywood’ssilent
film period and part of its Golden
Age.
• Regarded as one of the greatest
and most inscrutable movie stars
ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer and the Hollywood studio
system, Garbo received a 1954
Honorary Academy Award "for her
unforgettable screen
performances”and in 1999 was
ranked as the fifth greatest female
star of all time by the American
Film Institute.
Vyjayanthimala Bali
• Vyjayanthimala Bali (born
on August 13, 1936, in
Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India)
is an Indian actress of the
1950s and '60s, who won a
large number of awards for
her acting and classical
dancing achievements.
Following her cinema
career, she entered Indian
politics, and became a
Member of Parliament.
Rati Agnihotri
• Rati Agnihotri was
born on December
10, 1960 to a Punjabi
family inMumbai,
Maharastra,India is a
veteran Indian
actress. Her portfolio
mainly includes films
in Hindi-
Urdu,Tamil,Telugu,Te
lugu and Kannada.
Robert Clive
Robert Clive
• Robert Clive, one of the Most flamboyant
personalities in the history of British India.
• He was only 19 when he began his career as a
clerk for the East India Company at Fort St George.
• Soon tiring of Paper Work, he became a soldier
and fought many successful battles including the
carnatic wars, which established the company's
rule in the South India.
• Clive was given the Steward ship of Fort St
George and later become Governor of Bengal.
• The wealth he amassed in India led to his trial, in
England, on charges of corruption.
• Clive committed suicide in 1774.
Kothamangalam Subbu
Kothamangalam Subbu
• Kothamangalam Subbu (November 10, 1910 -
February 15, 1974), a noted Padmashri-award winning
poet,lyricist,writer,actor and director fromTamilNadu who
authored the cult classic of Tamil novelThillana
Mohanambal, later made into an enchanted movie.
• According to novelist Ashokamitran's memoirs, Subbu
functioned as the No.2 of the giant Gemini Studios of
Chennai (formerly Madras), South India for over three
decades and was a close associate of movie mogul SS
Vasan, who also published the popular Tamil weekly
Ananda Vikatan and established the Gemini Studios in
Chennai.
Thillana mohanambal
• Director:
• A.P. Nagarajan
• Writer:
• Kothamangalam Subbu (novel)
• A classical bharathanatyam dancer and a
nathaswaram player fall in love against the
wishes of her family.This movie is about how
they try to work things out and that hardships
that they have to endure. Dance and music are
used as an integral part of the story rather than a
pastime.
Thillana mohanambal
Thillana mohanambal
S.D.S.Yogiar,
 S.D.S.Yogiar, a freedom fighter and
a National Poet. His patriotic songs
won Gold Medals and the Government
has nationalized his writings.
Krishnasastri
 Devulapalli Krishnasastri is a Telugu poet and was
born in East Godavari district.
He was brought up in family of court-poets and he
started writing poetry from a very young age.
 Krishnasastri's works changed significantly after he
met Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore at
Santiniketan in 1929.
 Krishnasastri joined All India Radio in 1945 and has
written number of plays for it.Andhra University has
conferred the title Kalaprapoorna (The complete
artist) on him in 1975.
 He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award too.
He was given the Padma Bhushan in 1976.
Sangu Subramanian
 He was a tamil
poet.
Haridranath
Chatopadhyaya
 Harindranath
Chattopadhyay
(April 2, 1898 -
June 23, 1990,
Mumbai) was a
Bengali Indian
English poet. He
was the brother of
Sarojini Naidu.
Frank Buchman
 Frank Buchman
(June 4, 1878 –
August 7, 1961)
was a Protestant
Christian
evangelist who
founded the
Moral Re-
Armament from
1938 until 2001.
S.S.Vasan
 S.S.Vasan (10
March 1903 – 26
August 1969) was a
famous Indian film
producer, director,
writer, journalist
and entrepreneur.
William Wordsworth
 William Wordsworth
(7 April 1770 – 23 April
1850) was a major
English Romantic poet
who, with Samuel
Taylor Coleridge,
helped to launch the
Romantic Age in
English literature with
the 1798 joint
publication Lyrical
Ballads.
Alfred Tennyson,
 Alfred Tennyson, 1st
Baron Tennyson,
FRS (6 August 1809 –
6 October 1892), much
better known as
"Alfred, Lord
Tennyson," was Poet
Laureate of the United
Kingdom during much
of Queen Victoria's
reign and remains one
of the most popular
poets in the English
John Keats
 John Keats (31
October 1795 – 23
February 1821) was an
English poet, who
became one of the key
figures of the Romantic
movement. The poetry
of Keats was
characterised by
elaborate word choice
and sensual imagery,
most notably in a
series of odes which
remain among the
most popular poems in
English literature
Percy Bysshe Shelley
 Percy Bysshe Shelley (4
August 1792 – 8 July 1822;
was one of the major
English Romantic poets and
is critically regarded among
the finest lyric poets in the
English language. He is
most famous for such
classic anthology verse
works as Ozymandias, Ode
to the West Wind, To a
Skylark, and The Masque of
Anarchy, which are among
the most popular and
critically acclaimed poems
in the English language.
Lord Byron
 Lord Byron (22 January
1788 – 19 April 1824) was
an English poet. Amongst
Byron's best-known works
are the brief poems She
Walks in Beauty, When We
Two Parted, and So, we'll
go no more a roving, in
addition to the narrative
poems Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage and Don Juan.
 He is regarded as one of
the greatest British poets
and remains widely read
and influential, both in the
English-speaking world and
beyond.
T.S.Eliot
 Thomas Stearns Eliot,
(26 September 1888–4
January 1965), was a poet,
playwright, and literary
critic.
 He received the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 1948.
 Among his most famous
writings are The Love Song
of J. Alfred Prufrock, The
Waste Land, "The Hollow
Men", Ash Wednesday, Four
Quartets, Murder in the
Cathedral, The Cocktail
Party and "Old Possum's
Book of Practical Cats".
The God That Failed
 The God That Failed is a 1949 book which
collects together six essays with the testimonies of
a number of famous ex-Communists, who were
writers and journalists.
 The common theme of the essays is the authors'
disillusionment with and abandonment of
Communism.
 The promotional byline to the book is "Six famous
men tell how they changed their minds about
Communism."
 The six contributors were Louis Fischer, André Gide,
Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender,
and Richard Wright.
Louis Fischer
 Louis Fischer (29
February 1896 – 15 January
1970) was a Jewish-
American journalist
 . Among his works were a
contribution to the ex-
Communist treatise The
God that Failed, as well as a
biography of Mahatma
Gandhi entitled The Life of
Mahatma Gandhi.
 This book was used as the
basis for the Academy
Award-winning film Gandhi.
Fischer's wife, Markoosha
Fischer, was also a writer.
André Gide
 André Gide (22
November 1869—19
February 1951) was a
French author and
winner of the Nobel
Prize in literature in
1947. Gide's career
ranged from its
beginnings in the
symbolist movement,
to the advent of
anticolonialism
between the two World
Arthur Koestler
 Arthur Koestler (5
September 1905,– 1 March
1983, London) was a prolific
writer of essays, novels and
autobiographies.
 He was born into a Hungarian
Jewish family in Budapest but,
apart from his early school
years, was educated in Austria.
His early career was in
journalism.
 In 1931 he joined the
Communist Party of Germany
but, disillusioned, he resigned
from it in 1938 and in 1940
published a devastating anti-
Communist novel, Darkness at
Noon, which propelled him to
instant international fame.
Ignazio Silone
 Ignazio Silone (May 1,
1900 - August 22, 1978)
was the pseudonym of
Secondo Tranquilli, an
Italian author.He was born
in the town of Pescina in
the Abruzzo region and lost
many family members,
including his mother, in the
1915 Avezzano earthquake.
His father had died in 1911.
Silone joined the Young
Socialists group of the
Italian Socialist Party (PSI),
rising to be their leader.
Stephen Spender
 Stephen Spender (28
February 1909 – 16
July 1995) was an
English poet, novelist
and essayist who
concentrated on
themes of social
injustice and the class
struggle in his work.
He was appointed the
seventeenth Poet
Laureate Consultant in
Poetry to the United
States Library of
Congress in 1965
Richard Wright
 Richard Wright
(September 4, 1908 –
November 28, 1960)
was an African-
American author.
Wright, the grandson
of former slaves, was
born on the Rucker
plantation in Roxie,
Mississippi, in Franklin
County, just outside of
Natchez
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Poets and pancakes .ppt

  • 1. Poets and Pancakes Ashokmitran K.Parameswari,PGT (English) Kendriya Vidyalaya, NO1,Jalahalli,Bangalore Karnataka
  • 2. Ashoka Mitran • Ashoka Mitran (born September 22, 1931) is one of the most influential figures in post-independent Tamil literature.
  • 3. Ashoka Mitran • Ashoka Mitran (born September 22, 1931) is one of the most influential figures in post- independent Tamil literature. • He began his literary career with the prize winning play "Anbin Parisu", followed by many short stories, novellas and novels. • A distinguished essayist and critic, he is the editor of the literary journal "Kanaiyaazhi". • He has written over 200 short stories, eight novels, some 15 novellas besides other prose writings. • Most of his works have also been translated into English.
  • 4. • He worked for more than a decade at the Gemini Studios. • His experinces here and his interaction with people from the Tamil filmdom later took the form of his book "My Years with Boss". • It was from 1966 that he became a full-time writer and he took up the pseudonym of "Ashokamitran" . • In the 1980s most of his works were translated into English and he and his works became well- known all over India. • Some of his works were translated into other European languages and most Indian languages as well.
  • 5. Pancake • Pancake was the brand name of the make up material that Gemini Studios brought in Truck loads.
  • 6. Gemini Studios • Gemini Studios was launched when Thiruthuraipoondi Subramanian Srinivasan (aka. S.S.Vasan) (1903-1969) bought a film distribution concern at an auction and renamed it as Gemini Pictures also known as Gemini Studios. • Gemini Studios served as a breeding ground for innumerable artists and technicians for the south Indian film Industry. • The Gemini twins became a household symbol and the Gemini flyover was named after the original studio at that junction.
  • 7. Miss Gohar • Date of Birth: • 1910, Lahore, British India [now in Pakistan] more • Date of Death: • 28 September 1985 more • Alternate Names: • Gohar Karnataki
  • 8. Greta Garbo • Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish actress during Holloywood’ssilent film period and part of its Golden Age. • Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Honorary Academy Award "for her unforgettable screen performances”and in 1999 was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.
  • 9. Vyjayanthimala Bali • Vyjayanthimala Bali (born on August 13, 1936, in Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India) is an Indian actress of the 1950s and '60s, who won a large number of awards for her acting and classical dancing achievements. Following her cinema career, she entered Indian politics, and became a Member of Parliament.
  • 10. Rati Agnihotri • Rati Agnihotri was born on December 10, 1960 to a Punjabi family inMumbai, Maharastra,India is a veteran Indian actress. Her portfolio mainly includes films in Hindi- Urdu,Tamil,Telugu,Te lugu and Kannada.
  • 12. Robert Clive • Robert Clive, one of the Most flamboyant personalities in the history of British India. • He was only 19 when he began his career as a clerk for the East India Company at Fort St George. • Soon tiring of Paper Work, he became a soldier and fought many successful battles including the carnatic wars, which established the company's rule in the South India. • Clive was given the Steward ship of Fort St George and later become Governor of Bengal. • The wealth he amassed in India led to his trial, in England, on charges of corruption. • Clive committed suicide in 1774.
  • 14. Kothamangalam Subbu • Kothamangalam Subbu (November 10, 1910 - February 15, 1974), a noted Padmashri-award winning poet,lyricist,writer,actor and director fromTamilNadu who authored the cult classic of Tamil novelThillana Mohanambal, later made into an enchanted movie. • According to novelist Ashokamitran's memoirs, Subbu functioned as the No.2 of the giant Gemini Studios of Chennai (formerly Madras), South India for over three decades and was a close associate of movie mogul SS Vasan, who also published the popular Tamil weekly Ananda Vikatan and established the Gemini Studios in Chennai.
  • 15. Thillana mohanambal • Director: • A.P. Nagarajan • Writer: • Kothamangalam Subbu (novel) • A classical bharathanatyam dancer and a nathaswaram player fall in love against the wishes of her family.This movie is about how they try to work things out and that hardships that they have to endure. Dance and music are used as an integral part of the story rather than a pastime.
  • 18. S.D.S.Yogiar,  S.D.S.Yogiar, a freedom fighter and a National Poet. His patriotic songs won Gold Medals and the Government has nationalized his writings.
  • 19. Krishnasastri  Devulapalli Krishnasastri is a Telugu poet and was born in East Godavari district. He was brought up in family of court-poets and he started writing poetry from a very young age.  Krishnasastri's works changed significantly after he met Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan in 1929.  Krishnasastri joined All India Radio in 1945 and has written number of plays for it.Andhra University has conferred the title Kalaprapoorna (The complete artist) on him in 1975.  He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award too. He was given the Padma Bhushan in 1976.
  • 20. Sangu Subramanian  He was a tamil poet.
  • 21. Haridranath Chatopadhyaya  Harindranath Chattopadhyay (April 2, 1898 - June 23, 1990, Mumbai) was a Bengali Indian English poet. He was the brother of Sarojini Naidu.
  • 22. Frank Buchman  Frank Buchman (June 4, 1878 – August 7, 1961) was a Protestant Christian evangelist who founded the Moral Re- Armament from 1938 until 2001.
  • 23. S.S.Vasan  S.S.Vasan (10 March 1903 – 26 August 1969) was a famous Indian film producer, director, writer, journalist and entrepreneur.
  • 24. William Wordsworth  William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
  • 25. Alfred Tennyson,  Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), much better known as "Alfred, Lord Tennyson," was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English
  • 26. John Keats  John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet, who became one of the key figures of the Romantic movement. The poetry of Keats was characterised by elaborate word choice and sensual imagery, most notably in a series of odes which remain among the most popular poems in English literature
  • 27. Percy Bysshe Shelley  Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822; was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy, which are among the most popular and critically acclaimed poems in the English language.
  • 28. Lord Byron  Lord Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan.  He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond.
  • 29. T.S.Eliot  Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888–4 January 1965), was a poet, playwright, and literary critic.  He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.  Among his most famous writings are The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, "The Hollow Men", Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party and "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats".
  • 30. The God That Failed  The God That Failed is a 1949 book which collects together six essays with the testimonies of a number of famous ex-Communists, who were writers and journalists.  The common theme of the essays is the authors' disillusionment with and abandonment of Communism.  The promotional byline to the book is "Six famous men tell how they changed their minds about Communism."  The six contributors were Louis Fischer, André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Richard Wright.
  • 31. Louis Fischer  Louis Fischer (29 February 1896 – 15 January 1970) was a Jewish- American journalist  . Among his works were a contribution to the ex- Communist treatise The God that Failed, as well as a biography of Mahatma Gandhi entitled The Life of Mahatma Gandhi.  This book was used as the basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi. Fischer's wife, Markoosha Fischer, was also a writer.
  • 32. André Gide  André Gide (22 November 1869—19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World
  • 33. Arthur Koestler  Arthur Koestler (5 September 1905,– 1 March 1983, London) was a prolific writer of essays, novels and autobiographies.  He was born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest but, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. His early career was in journalism.  In 1931 he joined the Communist Party of Germany but, disillusioned, he resigned from it in 1938 and in 1940 published a devastating anti- Communist novel, Darkness at Noon, which propelled him to instant international fame.
  • 34. Ignazio Silone  Ignazio Silone (May 1, 1900 - August 22, 1978) was the pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli, an Italian author.He was born in the town of Pescina in the Abruzzo region and lost many family members, including his mother, in the 1915 Avezzano earthquake. His father had died in 1911. Silone joined the Young Socialists group of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), rising to be their leader.
  • 35. Stephen Spender  Stephen Spender (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965
  • 36. Richard Wright  Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an African- American author. Wright, the grandson of former slaves, was born on the Rucker plantation in Roxie, Mississippi, in Franklin County, just outside of Natchez
  • 37. Acknowledgement  Search Engine – www.google.co.in