BOOK REVIEW:The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

The accompanying picture is taken from a gallery in London,the etching was made by Rembrandt.

Rating:Excellent.


Well this play and its plot are so famous that even the people who haven't read the book know that "Dr. Faustus sold his soul to the Devil(Lucifer) for earthly pleasures.

Well the play makes a wonderful reading.It has a bit of humour,greed,ambition and tragdy.
The humourous parts are really good but a few things in homour are similar to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakesphere'.
The confusing part of the book is that you dont know which is the original text,the A-Text or the B-Text because usually both are given these days.I prefer the B-Text for it is a bit fuller,by fuller i mean a bit longer and a bit more satisfying.

Well coming to the plot-
It is the story of Dr. John Faustus,a doctor of philosophy who was supposed to be among the best at his time.But like most of us,he was goin through a troubled part of his life when he starts reading books on Black Magic and Soscery.
He then sells his soul to the Devil through Mephestophilis,who is the agent of Lucifer.At one poit of the play,Lucifer himself visits Faustus.
Faustus,for selling his soul gets all pleasures and Mephestophilis,to follow all his orders.
Sometimes Faustus has realisations of his folly, but whenever he wants to repent, either Mephestophilis or his greed donot let him do it.
But the best part of the play is the last scene where Faustus' time is over and he is about to die.
The feelings and expressions that Marlowe uses,make you cry out.
All in all A VERY SATISFYING BOOK.
EVEN BETTER THAN ALL OF SHAKESPHERE'S PLAYS.

The Story of Popeye

He's short, balding, ornery and downright ugly by anyone's standards. But countless millions of fans have grown up admiring and identifying with this unpretentious hero since his first public appearance in 1929. With one of his cartoons airing somewhere in the world nearly every minute of every day, Popeye the Sailor Man remains one of the most widely recognized and best-loved personalities ever.

The year is 1929, January 17th, to be exact. A 10-year-old comic strip by Elzie Seagar: "The Thimble Theatre", which originally revolved around Olive Oyl's family, entertained a new character, not too brilliant, not too handsome, not too strong - it was a sailor, standing in the harbor - to the question: "ARE YOU A SAILOR" he replied: "Ja THINK I'M A COWBOY" - He was hired - and slowly, but surely, got read of most of the old characters in the strip and received the lead together with his love - from those days till today - Ms. Oyl.
Popeye is an underdog with a long fuse and a keen sense of fair play. Everyone identifies with Popeye when he finally says, "Thas' all I can stands, 'cause I can't stands no more!"
It seems only fitting that our most unlikely hero would fall for the least likely of sex symbols; Olive Oyl. Flat as a board, with a pickle-shaped nose and fickle heart to match, Popeye's "goil" puts him through his paces. Her only real competition is spinach.

Popeye made his first public appearance on January 17, 1929 in Elzie Segar's then 10-year-old comic strip, "Thimble Theatre," which originally revolved around Olive Oyl's family. Popeye quickly eclipsed older characters to become the star of the strip. With Popeye came a host of new, off-beat funny folks such as Swee'Pea, the "infink" Popeye adopted; J. Wellington Wimpy, the world's most hamburger-obsessed moocher; and Brutus, the hairy "heavy" with the glass jaw. Segar had a genius for creating strong, memorable characters the entire world
Popeye made his first public appearance on January 17, 1929 in Elzie Segar's then 10-year-old comic strip, "Thimble Theatre," which originally revolved around Olive Oyl's family. Popeye quickly eclipsed older characters to become the star of the strip. With Popeye came a host of new, off-beat funny folks such as Swee'Pea, the "infink" Popeye adopted; J. Wellington Wimpy, the world's most hamburger-obsessed moocher; and Brutus, the hairy "heavy" with the glass jaw. Segar had a genius for creating strong, memorable characters the entire world knows and loves.

My Village KAlpa 

IF......

It goes as a saying “Had Rudyard Kipling not written anything other than this great poem (which he composed in a night, while sitting at the bedside of a friend, Sir Leandar Starr Jameson, a Scots Surgeon who lay dying after being mortally wounded in a Boer War in South Africa) he would have earned for himself everlasting fame”

“IF”.
(Rudyard .J. Kipling)

IF you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, and blaming it on you.
IF you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowances for their doubting too.
IF you can wait and not be tired by waiting or being lied about, don’t deal in lies or being hated don’t give way to hating. And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.
IF you can dream and not make dreams your master, If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;
IF you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same. IF you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life,
broken and stoop and build ‘em up with worn out tools.
IF you can make on heap of your life’s winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch - and toss. And lose and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss.
IF you can force your heart nerve and sinew to serve your turn long and there is nothing in you except the will, which says to them “Hold On”
IF you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings nor lose the common touch, IF neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you IF all men count with you but none too much after they are gone. And so hold on when--:
IF you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty-second worth of distance run… Yours is the Earth and everything that is in it, And which is more you’ll be a man… my son.

It may be interesting to know that Rudyard Joseph Kipling was born in Bombay, India, Dec.30, 1865 and as an adult Lived in the Kennedy House in Simla, he has a few score books and poems worthy to his credit “Kim” and “Jungle Book” are examples, his father was an artist and a scholar connected to the highest Anglo Indian Society of the time. Lord Baldwin the then British PM was a first cousin yet Kipling was brought up in a foster home in the UK, where he was inspired to write (later) under the terrible conditions he was placed in. He is said to have declined twice the “Order of Merit” the highest honor that can be conferred on a British Subject, as also the Poet Laureateship

JUIT Colfest 06

Hey Ppl the college Fest of JUIT Wakhnaghat was a total flop according to me. major events of the Literary Club like Debate being cancelled.Also the Band for this fest was AASMA,a really pathetic pop band and worst of all I had to introduce it. The website was also not good bau this time the DJ was better.The crowd also was pretty less this time n there was no competition.Hey and yes i almost forgot,the bastards didnt allow any booze n the girls were also not allowed to wear very short skirts. so bad na?????

My Beautiful Simla At Night 

My College,JUIT Wakhnaghat 

Mah Coll..

This is ma coll,JUIT Wakhnaghat.
Its an Engineering College and one of the best upcoming universities.
Its the place where i learned a lot of lessons in life.
Some good but mostly bad.
A place where a found valuable friends n also found the height of hippocarcy.
Not a really bad place at all,infact quite descent.But u tend to get bore after some time.
BUT IT STILL ROCKS....

Poda,Me and Bhinds 

thats me