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P C K Prem (P C Katoch of Garh-Malkher, Palampur, Himachal, a former academician, civil servant and Member, Public Service Commission, Himachal, Shimla), an author of more than fifty books is a poet, novelist, short story writer and a critic in English and Hindi from Himachal, India.
Folk literature constitutes psychological, cultural and philosophical areas of growth and development of a country and in the background wholesome ingredients of folklores and folktales stay to reflect on a country's culture, ethos and heritage. India, with a scintillating variety enthralls everyone going into the depths of folklores and folktales making Indians exceptional in respect of behaviour, conduct and thought-pattern. If one analyzes and evaluates folk ...
English poetry in India carries an enormous strength of Indian heritage and culture with genuine Vedic equanimity. Stateliness and a tremendously secular outlook. In evaluating the aptitude of English writing in India during days of growth, one finds a few shades of impact of sensibility not precisely belonging to the native soil. Obviously, nature and subjects of contemporary consciousness with a scrupulous avoidance of controversial social and political aspects ...
Satisfaction is, perhaps, only an intellectual carries the awesome burden of the world. All others are just toys, to be tossed about and thrown away. It is a self-destructive analysis that modern intellectuals spin out, and finally meet an end, which invokes little sympathy and raises enormous derision. And there exist relations past and present which might raise eyebrows, invite a measure of cynicism and contempt and finally condemnation but the inveterate fact ...
If the business of all serious literatures is the criticism of life, guided by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty, then P.C.K. Prem eminently qualifies to be hailed as one, who seriously tries to delve into the web of human relationships with almost Lawrentian intensity. Throughout in the narrative, one encounters the currents and cross-currents which inevitably surface when certain relationships come under the close scrutiny of a sensitive writer like ...
It is a brilliant novel-embodying ethos of modern India, an attempt to catch the spirit of the age. Before the Independence of the country, there was a spontaneous upsurge of patriotic enthusiasm and fervour, a keenness to realise the dream of Ramrajya, of prosperity and justice for all and uplift of the poor. However, the dreams seem to vanish away in the post-independence era, as self-interest dominates, corruption spreads, rat-race for getting easy money ...