In my opinion, great books are retold to simplify the original text for modern day audience. They provide the reader with an insight of the most relevant and influential events from the original story. For instance, the original Ramayana was a series of eight lengthy books but, R.K. Narayana retold the story to make the original version easier to grasp. In fact, I believe his retelling was successful as it was significantly shorter, straight to the point and relevant to the current time. This was
Hindu high caste culture and in a very poor family. But Kalam was brought up under mixed culture. Though he belongs to Muslim religion, one can identify his writing that he lived in a place where people belonged to various religions. The beauty of Rameswaram tells us though there is a mixed culture, its people maintained unity among them. Radhakrishanan’s language is poetic, aphoristic and highly realistic and Kalam’s is precise, scientific and
of India have to circumnavigate around Sri Lanka. Because of the existing water way between India and Sri Lanka in the Gulf of Mannar (GOM) and Palk Strait is shallow at many places. Further, a sand stone reef called Adams Bridge at Pamban near Rameswaram between the southeastern Coasts of India and Talaimannar of Sri Lanka also obstructs the movement of large shipping vessels. 3. The idea of the Sethusamudram Channel Project (SSCP) is nearly 150 years old, and it has been proposed since the