LITERARY NOTE
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SET-I/VII
1.NOTES FROM NEHRU’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Vocabularies:
Musings, solitude, gaol, slurred, egotistical, malice, autobiographical, sketchy, viassitudes, dwindled, filial, flouted, pranks, escapades, spurt, fright, resentment, mortification, quivering, confide, exterminated, lore, snuggle, revelry, tableaux, dainties, arrayed, squabbles, consternation, exhilarating, disdainful, smug, musted, thralldom, shirker, cane, deportation, elated, shackles, cyrenaicism, veil, grappling, diffidence, interminable, pitched, impertinent, cog, hovered, ignominy, suffrage, ape, conceit, tramping, torrent, numbed, precipice, prig, command, engulfed, insipidity, torpor, anathematize, intelligentsia, endearment, indenture, ardour, platitudinous, aghast, exhilarated, signatories, internment, disdainfully, jarred, diffident, muzzling, effusive, heralds, flank, exaltation, fagged, foolhardy, diadem, amphitheatre, surmounted, crevasses, clutched, perils, peasantry, subservient, tinged, harsher, afire, preposterous, showy, veil, defy, mowing, internment, temporizing, trample, tame, externed, looming, rescinding, denial, glistened, exactions, ejectment, pauperization, indentured, solidarity, agrarian, scores, indelibly, province, instigation, concourse, sedition, repression, feud, slay, weary, grappling, accustomed, epicure, fetters, abstained, waverer, strife, wilting, defiance, overshadowed, camouflage, nurtured, hailed, abounding, bustle, apostle, mutiny, dogmatic, revivalist, revivalism, intervene, incomprehensible, fads, allegiance, doctrine, spiritualization, sullied, stoop, serene, motley, vague, semblance, trudged, begot, perch, impending, levity, frivolity, sedition, novelty, conceit, prop, orgy, consternation, retaliated, deplorable, persuasive, unadorned, adorns, abstinence, visionary, perish, triumphant, warth, farcical, tattered, swore, infringement, remonstrated, picket, intimidation, extortion, sedition, repugnance, ignominy, tantamount, yearned, hues, clime, gaily, trickled, intrigues, yoked, abstention, acquaintances, conscientiously, inducement, flogged, pleasantest, amnesty, propitious, prevail, pitch forked, resentment, patronize, onslaught, panting, assortment, ardent, advocacy, camaraderie , chary, prosaic, fissiparous, owed, vagaries, superfluities, prim, consonance, intrigue, interlude, dawned, astounding, adjournment, farcical, semi-feudal, archaic, feudalism, tacked, oblivion, sequel, pounced, legality, succor, dissuaded, pretext,
Disclination, deserting, valour, wont, nimble wit, sarcasm, honorific, irreligion, swerve, reverend, internment, receptive, doomed, lurch, dismal, prophecy, palisade, clambering, refrained, astounding, convalescing, recuperate, pomp, doormat, unerringly, malice, sheet-anchor, waning, responsivists, estrangement, limped, limpid, obeisance, purr, swinburne, imperious, feel, busts, brethren, a weary, tramped, rampant, bout, valetudinarian, enfeebled, haggling, patronage, unanimity, aftermath, tableaux, carnival, innovation, contravention, enactments, ruts, infuse, vigour, mazes, befogged, gazing, outwitted, intruder, littered, coveting, relic, attire, sedate, pompous, lightheartedness, wherewithal, malady, symathised, pinched, jeered, embittered, scabs, fierce, medley, heeded, misled, shirked, motley, declamatory, ludicrous, clung, indignation, fatuous, recrudescence, coercion, bore, nettled, ostensibly, belabouring, conspicuous, brandishing, instinctive, stunned, stragglers, processionists, annoyance, conceit, feverishly, hovels, marveled, cupidity, coppers, despotic, inducement, innocuous, recrudescence, detunes,
Invidious, bewildered, curtly, venerate, relentlessly, ingeniously, proletarian, buffeted, lure, prophesy, unscathed, linen, ascetic, negation, abstention, accretion, raillery, bandied, sarcasm, exhortation, hastened, undaunted, efficacy, commotion, promulgation, fiercest, brood, wrap, stunt, appalling, gratification, solitary, vivisection, dreariness, acquisition, remissions, enumerated, swarming, newer, slump, liven, en bloc, infusion, spurt, banged, reasserted, conferred, enduring, stale, flogging, infliction, ordeal, dismal, conceal, dismay, forebodings, disdain, platitudes, sorest, beckoned, afoot, stupendous, distraught, disquieting, sting, ascendant, abhorrence, reticence, quintessence, salvation, tangible, nurtured, elation, lightheartedly, gallantry, pondered, whimper, wobbled, buntings, shudder, preludes, prevaricate, perspicacity, veil, sop, elucidation, committer, desertion, intrepid, down hearted, unfalteringly, countenances, yearning, enervating, falter, feudal, relic, stifled, tabernacle, men folk, sequel, trivial, bugbear, striding, fuss, askance, gallant, tossed, unbeknown, slump, alleviate, incept, vainglorious, subtle, hierarchy, loins, chastise, chastisement, perils, camaraderie, encumbrance, subaltern, blackball, embittering, ineradicable, kink, copiously, credence, interminably, trump card, pawns, jobbery, murky, gilded, vaster, loomed, barren, redounded, meandering, agrarian, leaven, redressed, pendency, persuasion, serf, dispossessed, proletariat, stupendous, ejectment, besieged, predicament, liaison, remissions, forestalled, casus belli, deplorable, reprisals, dastardly, contemptuous, errand, intrusion, brusquely, swan-songs, promulgate, denial, contemptuously, peremptory, patent, self-stultification, tie down, helm, proscriptions, disjointedly, irreconcilables, pastime, formidable, fretting, gagging, gusto, utterance, intelligentsia, flirt, ravish, offhand, rattled, dribble, chattels, behest, sacrilege, whigs, dumb, recked, confiscation, repression, apologetic, equanimity, sympathize, gnat, forgathered, surveillance, grimly, hustled, mused, patronage, cringing, notoriety, incursions, unruffled, incarcerated, pastimes, revealing, conspicuous, averse, denuded, tiff, inadvertently, exterminate, twittering, swooping, prey, entrenched, undimmed, weariness, ordeal, regimentation, stifling, adventurism, bonafide, flinching, obscuring, stumble, revivalism, unerring, bigotry, rectitude, Perfide Albion, tempests, serfs, gospel, hedged, obscurantist, signatories, barred, triumphantly, impregnable, petrifying, chasm, apt, blurs, word-magic, oblivious, narcissism, undismayed, muffled, conceit, sobriety, pervading, Vae-Vietis, cringing, proletariat, bourgeois Dom, in-excelsis, mediocre, mediocrity, curb, predilectious, chide, na?ve, simpletons, inquisitors, elude, forlorn,
Despotic, torpor, plod, extirpated, sneaknishness, hierophants, debunking, hummocks,
eminences, esprit de corps, plus royaliste qui le roil, impertinence, equanimity, sectarian, engrossed, denunciation, Lingua Franca, lop sided, folly, squash, vehemence, conjure. Inane, fiddle, Betenoir, jauntily, inalienable, rut, clamant, persona grata, vistas, grabs, impasse, slump, cattish, follies, wert, dost, thwart, wilderness, rectitude, chattels, serene, populace, lese majeste, messianic, impiety, snares, thistle-ball, precincts, en masse, trampling, state, relics, din, Los Hombres Honrades, pulpit, l’etat, c’est moi!, adduces, hard, Calvinistic, repugnant, Rerum Novarum, artifice, sustenance, loom, famish, abstinence, covetousness, vanquished, autarchy, ostentation, ape, attire, flaunted, cama raderie, stuffs, overhauling, tinkering, propping up, agrarian, exasperated, repentant, combat, suzerainty, quixotic, scorn, putrefaction, hedged, ostentation, consternation, permeation, plumage, rapacious, jeered, salvation, thought-provoking, ferment, intrigue, sheathe, recalcitrant, predatory, scruple, suasion alone, heresy, Ab initio, barred, insurrection, jar, prima facie, wanes, slurring, brethren, oblivion, petered, rumblings, flinching.
Status- quo, betenoir, persona grata, lese majeste, en masse,
Two Words or Three Words group:
Vile notion, anti-Semitic feeling, semi- high brow talk, adamantine fact, honorific titles,
Verdant mountain, woebegone condition, meek submissions, nimble wit, unsavoury situation, nationalist flavour, clatter of horses, writhing in pain, ghastly tragedy, contused wounds, stupendous profits, barest pittance, exhibition of myself, prying eyes, flowery language, leonine and kingly, exuberant verbosity, battered body, spineless politics, crushing routine, political harem, rock bottom poverty, muddle headed, titular head, vice regal reply, state of siege, paltry scabies, pertered out, turning a hair, humane disciplinarian, detestable crowd, scamper away, emotional starvation, spiritual prostitution, embodiment of truth, armchair critics, thought provoking, shades and grades, unfolding panorama, stupendous profit, impromptu gathering,
Loom up, moaning of; tone down, varied life, wining personality, old fire in his eyes,
Communal temperature, clip the wings, prying eyes, concourses of people, exuberant verbosity, Flashing success, recalcitrant villages, detestable crowd, fierce quarrles,
Heresy hunts, canon of logic, confiscation of property, unfolding panorama,
Good Constructions:
“ It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ears to hear anything of praise for him.”
- Abraham Cowley
I did not realize then that a time would come when birthdays would become unpleasant reminders of advancing age.
Gradual widening of the intellectual horizon.
There are so much do be done, so much to be seen and so many fresh avenues to explore.
I was glad to back home and to pick up old threads.
This harmless little animals fell down at my feet, wounded to death, and looked up at me with a great big eyes full of tears. Those eyes have often haunted me since.
This Arya became in prakritajja and this led to the simple ji.
Semi naked sons and daughters of India
It took him a long time to make up his mind.
But behind that outward covering there was the heat of a blazing fire and concentrated passion.
But I believe that non-violence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. ( KHSAMA VIRASHYA BHUSANAM).
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Tries to cloth his decision with reasons.
The suspension of civil resistance had apparently galvanized the revising judges into activity.
I braved the heat and the occasional drizzle even.
One misses many things in prison, but perhaps most of all one misses the sound of women’s voices and children’s laughter.
He pointed out to me how foolish it would be of me to spend my time, or most of it, in earning a little money, instead of doing public work.
I took shelter behind the advice of friends and made of it a pretet to civer my own weakness.
To gain his passive co-operation at least, if not his active sympathy.
Two great attribute of human nature- Faith and Strength.
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other
Terrorism usually represents the infancy of a revolutionary urge in a country.
As the summer and monsoon months gradually shaded off into the autumn
Circular wall reminds one more of captivity than a rectangular one
They soothed the fever of mind
In prison one begins to appreciate the Marxian theory, that the state is really the coercive apparatus meant to enforce the will of a group that controls the government.
I am happy beyond measure
Great flames leapt up and consumed that body which had meant so much to us who were lose to him as well as to millions of India.
Nehru About Gandhi
A man of the keenest intellect, of the fine feeling and good taste, wide vision, very human, and yet essentially the ascetic who had suppressed his passion and emotions, sublimated them and directed them in spiritual channels; a tremendous personality, drawing people to himself like a magnet, and calling out fierce loyalties and attachments- all this so utterly unlike and beyond a peasant. And yet without he is the great peasant, with a peasant’s outlook on affairs, and with peasant’ blindness to some aspect of life.
Two face like Janus, she looked both backward into the past and forward into the future and tried to combine the two.
I holidayed my vacation nicely.
Life seemed to be for them a smooth flowing river moving slowly to the great ocean.
We bade good bye.
The steam roller of the law.
Political murder, by a metaphysical process, becomes semi religious.
The time for my departure was at hand.
It was clear that whoever else wanted or did not want the struggle, the government was eager and over ready for it.
Father to the thought/fathered the thought
In the final event battles are won by nerves, said Marchal Foch.
I wondered how I would have behaved if I had been there. How far would my non-violence have carried me?
Others were cowed into abject submission, and hardly raised their voices in criticism.
Assembly angled for membership of this committee.
Felt bottled up
One begins to appreciate the value of the little things of life in prison. ( in poverty)
I was surprised to find one or two of them sitting by a dim lantern inside their barrack, learning their lessons for the next day.
A solitary drift of cloud
Thick mantle of snow
Horde of wild duck
Litter of pups
My nursing had puller her down
Self made wounds always took longer to heal than those caused by an adversary.
That theory lightened up many dark corners of my mind.
Groping about in the dark
Tangled web of current affairs
The machine went on blindly, what could a little cog in it do?
Some people flirted with Facist ideas
I accepted it as an inevitable occurrence and schooled myself to it.
Whatever happens my love and thoughts will be with you.
Because we are industrially backward and our external development has been slow, therefore our inner evolution has been greater.
According to Prof. John Dewey religion is defined as given below
“ Whatever introduces genuine perspective into the piecemeal and shifting episodes of existence” or again “ any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal in spite of threats of personal loss, because of conviction of its general enduring value, is religious in quality.”
Words and their musical use
Tinted glasses of the British ruling clan
Clutching at every straw
Cow down and coerce the people of India
Cat and mouse policy
Mirrored the strange mental state of that society
Nehru about India
Behind and within her battered body one could still glimpse a soul. Through long ages she had traveled and gathered much wisdom on the way, and trafficked with strangers and added them to her own big family, and witnessed days of glory and of decay, and suffered humiliation and terrible sorrow, and seen many a strange sight, but throughout her long journey she had clung to her immemorial culture, drawn strength and vitality from it and shared it with other lands. Like a pendulum she had swung up and down, she had ventured with the daring of her thought to reach up to the heavens and unravel their mystery, and she had also had bitter experience of the pit of hell.
Unity is a good thing, but unity in subjection is hardly a thing to be proud of.
The British Government in India is like tooth that decaying, but still strongly embedded (poverty)
One shadow remained to darken my mind- Kamla’s ill health ( Lincy’s Career)
Democracy for India was like Canada’s fur coat, unsuited to her climate.
Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he will will
Democracy laid stress on the power of the many, while capitalism gave real power to the few.
Definition of an Ambassador:- An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Galvanise ( Lincy) the country in a forward movement
The whole world is in the grip today of various crisis, but the greatest of these is the crisis of the spirit.
Divorced from reality
Fever in the brain
Blue sky dotted with clouds
We met only to be parted
Ref: Prof. Mc Donald’s cube for the measurement of the introversion and extroversion
Groping in the dark
Marching step by step with history
We have to deal not with communism but, with the addition of an extra syllable, with communalism.
Prisoners have only one major interest, the date of their release.
Mr. ‘X’ has risen by ascending spirals to dizzy heights.
The distant mountain seen easy of access and climbing the top beckons, but as one approaches, difficulties appear, and the higher one goes the more laborious the journey and the summit recedes into the clouds.
Last Words of Socrates: I know what death is, it may be a good thing and I am not afraid of it. But I do know that it is a bad thing to desert one’s past, and I prefer what may be good to what I know to be bad.”
How many moons I have watched wax and wane.
How many yesterdays of my life buried here.
Met people of all degrees.
Two other activities claimed my attention.
Rumbling were heard.
His personality and greatness tower over others.
Time is not yet ripe.
Professor SM