Jaya Chandrasekhar

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Shades of genius in English literature.....poets playwrights novelists..... A few brush strokes here and there ........

Jaya Chandrasekhar


    • Jul 2, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 8m AVG DURATION
    • 70 EPISODES


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    Part 1 Episode 8 : How praactice affects Communication

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 0:24


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    Part 1 Episode 7 : Effective Communication

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 0:46


    Part 1 Episode 6 : The choice of words, and much more !

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 1:03


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    Part 1 Episode 5 : Our spoken Image

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 0:56


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    Part 1 Episode 4 : The way your body language affects your communication

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 0:50


    Part 1 Episode 3 : The new normal and how it is affecting the art of face to face communication

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 1:13


    Part 1 Episode 2 : How self image affects your communication

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 3:02


    Part 1 Episode 1 : What makes you a good communicator?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 1:40


    Part 1 : Fluency can be fun !

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 2:10


    What our podcast Is all about !! Every time you speak, you give your absolute best. It has to be you the real you. Without this extra added energy you might as well forget about speaking. Let go of your fear and feel the flow. Be different be just yourself to be interesting. You'll be forgiven for everything else except for the sin of being a 'crashing bore'. Peek up your body, love your voice, choose the right words, be clear and crisp in your speech and enjoy the efffect. With sustained effort and practice, and fun with experiments and innovative games, anyone can communicate with ease and style.

    Lucy gray Wordsworth s enchanting enigma

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2021 2:22


    The lyrical beauty and purity of this child of nature , the touching poignancy of the poet's love for her ....

    Sublime beauty and spiritual power of nature in Wordsworth s Tintern abbey

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2021 3:59


    The poet traces his intimate connect with nature from boyhood to mature age his spiritual growth, with nature as his guardian and guide and how he sees nature as the salvation for humanity

    Ambiguity truth reality Eliot's journey of the Magi, a spiritual quest and renewal

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2021 10:29


    Homeless in a strange land a journey beset with hardship and suffering leads to the birth of Christianity and the death of pagan culture...

    The timeless in time Eliot's Burnt Norton ,movement and stillness, light and dark

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2021 18:15


    A melody a lyric a meditation on time , life , experience , salvation. The poet shares his spiritual philosophical musings , his search for meaning and purpose and his reflections on the nature of time , the barren emptiness of the modern world

    Hamlet in Eliot's Prufrock the tragic indecision the lost mirth and a stale world

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2021 13:37


    Shy introverted the anxieties and inner life of Prufrock, how isolated and alienated he feels in the modern world and a new way of experience

    Recurring emptiness, a cynical take on marriage in Larkin's Afternoons

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2021 7:13


    Young mothers, with lost identities, in the afternoon of their lives hemmed in by the gradual, almost unnoticed decline.

    Loneliness and monotony in Larkin's Mr Bleaney

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 10:07


    unsettling melancholy ,pessimism as the poet comes to grips with the dull, emotion less pedestrian life of both Bleaney and himself and reflects on a man's character and nature judged by his mode of living and habits

    Larkin Days an illusion of peace with disturbing undertones and his characteristic humour

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2021 12:56


    Explores once again the meaning of life and finds in the comforting repetitive rhythm of days the lurking shadow of illness and death

    Larkin s Deceptions the allure and anguish of desire man's predicament of suffering pain and grief

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2021 13:06


    The true story of Victorian times the dark underside of the blooming prosperity and progress man's pursuit of happiness and fulfilment, of desire and lust and it's aftermath of agonising pain and a sense of shame

    Phillip Larkin Next please....facing the inevitable with raw honesty and wry humor

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2021 10:11


    Words and music with elegant design , Larkin brings a very English bleakness to his sharp observations on man's illusory world of desire hope expectations and the reality of the bitter truth

    Auden's Lullaby content with the mortal world , and a blessing for the beloved

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2021 12:30


    hopelessly romantic, unswervingly realist this unconventional love lyric comes with a celebration of impermanence and the sensuality of erotic love , without any promise of a lasting relationship

    The world and the child Auden's Mundus et infans. the unabashed being

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2021 9:04


    Impersonal detached, the poet reflects on love , through the portrayal of the infant ....

    The shield of Achilles expectation and reality a tragedy without comment

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2020 13:16


    Auden has telescoped whole ages of history within the compass of a small lyric , the decay and dissolution in the modern age

    The grand illusion of the poet and it's disenchantment

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2020 5:50


    Regardless of the poet's desire and intent poetry is ultimately what readers make of it , how it is received and perceived Yeats poetry lives in the hearts of his readers

    Auden's In memory of WB Yeats an elegy which goes beyond mourning

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2020 8:16


    When poetry takes wings and creates a space of its own what does it do can it infuse mankind with fresh hope and purpose ?

    The march of the machine

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2020 6:38


    The relentless pursuit of material progress and prosperity, the giant strides in technology and science have they diminished the best in humans?

    The march of the machine

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2020 6:38


    The relentless pursuit of material progress and prosperity and the giant strides in technology and science have they diminished the best in humans

    Auden's The Unknown citizen Part 1 the American dream and the utopia of free capitalist states

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2020 7:34


    The poet's profound concern for the modern world and it's problems , man obscure, reduced to a mere cog in the wheel

    September 1 1939 auden's call for oneness and universal love Part 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2020 6:57


    The metaphor of light and dark a world engulfed in hatred , selfish self seeking possessiveness, he questions the social order, political ideologies , voices concern and hope in the power of love and humanism, the unity of mankind

    Auden September 1 1939 Part 3 the unmasked face of power and politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2020 4:38


    Auden's unease with the distressing impact of power on a hopelessly lost people

    sept I 1939....Part 2 the underpinnings and dynamics of war

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2020 6:19


    The poet traces the psychological political , historical causes leading to Hitler and the second world war

    Auden September 1 1939 an era of darkness

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2020 5:56


    the second world war the fear anxiety unrest , unrelenting violence ....part 1

    Concluding part Musee des beaux arts...the individual burden the privacy of suffering....

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2020 4:26


    The universal truth reflected by the old masters...a troubled Realisation that the world doesn't revolve around your existence...in troubled times

    Part 2 Musee des beaux arts

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2020 4:00


    Landscape with the fall of Icarus enduring human response to tragedy

    Auden Musee des beaux arts the Evanescence of life and its aureola of pathos , suffering and apathy

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2020 5:32


    Part 1 the nonchalant musings of an unseen speaker strolling in an Art gallery in the Museum of fine arts Brussels

    Auden's brave new world ....the petition

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2020 10:50


    a fervent prayer for a society free happy loving and caring. A new order, a new feel a new connect with man and nature....Eros the god of love and Freud to the rescue

    Conclusion Consider this and in our time....a poetic mirror incisive memorable inescapable

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 6:16


    The sense of menace , the dismal social gloom and Auden urges the essential goodness of life despite the presence of sin , to overtake and triumph

    Segment 2 Auden consider this and in our time the social malaise the psychological repression

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2020 4:55


    Freud to the rescue the Id and the conquest of the supreme antagonist the super consciousness

    Consider this and in our time Auden a clinical detached posture

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2020 6:54


    a panoramic view of the decadent modern society in the midst of unease and empty pleasures

    Auden the partition a wound that never healed

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2020 11:34


    The indecent haste of mapping the Radcliffe line , leaving a tragic and messy legacy, the architect Cyril Radcliffe, burnt his papers, refused his fee and left once and for all......not daring to look back....

    Youth health life.... beauty in ageing

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2020 6:07


    beautiful idealised nature upstanding men ...symbol of virility fishermen and farmers....no longer young , admires identifies with them " my arms are like the twisted thorns and yet there beauty lay "

    soulful understanding. melting doubts

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2020 5:14


    a sensitive blend of the contraries of thought, an inner being untangles questions... perhaps the earlier anxiety is replaced by a serene note ....

    The Tower part 2 nostalgia tinted folklore

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2020 7:27


    legend spills into a desire, a longing for the unattainable love of his life

    The Tower part 1 proud recompense for the haunting refrain of ageing.....

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2020 4:54


    A powerful lament in the solitude of the spirit, a defiant acceptance....of physical limitations and infinite possibilities of imagination

    Meru a sonnet that echoes eastern philosophy

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2020 13:49


    The transient world and the One Reality.... through strife and Maya to Realisation and Nirvana.....can Yeats abandon the joy and beauty of the grand illusion?

    Paradise of timeless perfection new

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2020 13:02


    rich in symbolism, the blue dome the golden bird the dolphins the nature art and transcendence

    Sailing to Byzantium an answer to the poet's dilemma

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2020 13:02


    art nature and transcendence.... resolution to contradictory impulses

    myth and unity the dancer and the dance

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2020 15:55


    The school children of a modern convent .....an occasional visit expands into a philosophy of life a meditation on ageing and love

    Art...the energy of imagination alive Lapis Lazuli

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2020 16:58


    A carving, a vision gyres of history

    Leda and the swan a sonnet daring and bold

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2020 15:02


    The Greek myth sweeps into a lyrical history apocalyptic in its vivid terror bringing into play the gyres of Yeats

    The second coming a dreadful prophecy

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2020 11:46


    Yeats troubled conscience the horrors of the first world war the unleashing of violence the disquiet and disintegration of an entire civilization

    A prayer for my daughter....infant Ireland .... plunged in depair

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2020 12:53


    The aftermath of the first world war ....a prayer for a civilization in distress

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