According to the social historians of England, after the economic and religious unrest of the middle Tudor period, the freedom preached by the humanists rejuvenated in a way the moral of the entire nation. And Shakespeare having chanced upon the best time in which to live had ample opportunity to exercise, with least distraction and most encouragement, the highest faculties of man. His comedies, therefore, register most comprehensively the characteristics of the ...
In Memories Come Alive: An Autobiography, Manna Dey takes a nostalgic trip down memory lane--his early passion for wrestling and football; adolescent pranks which involved shoplifting sweets from a confectionery and pole-valuating into the neighbour's terrace to swipe pickle jars; and the influence of his uncle and guru K.C. Dey (the celebrated singer and composer of the 1930s). He recounts his early days in Mumbai as an assistant music director to his uncle and ...