JOHNNY'S BLOG - 2

  AN  ABORTED ABDUCTION OF DRAUPADI                                                        Draupadi Draupadi, or Panchali , was born as the daughter of King Drupada through a holy fire sacrifice. She was beautiful and intelligent, with a fiery will. She married all five Pandava brothers , becoming queen of Indraprastha . Her humiliation in the Kaurava court sparked the Kurukshetra war .   King Drupada wanted a son and a daughter. A son to kill Drona . A son to kill Bhishma . A daughter who will marry into the Kuru household and divide it. King Drupada was defeated by Drona's students. A humiliated Drupada wanted to avenge this, and he invoked Shiva , the destructive form of god. Shiva blessed Dru...

  "SIDDHARTHA"  &  THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER  " THE GLASS BEAD GAME "  BY HERMANN HESSE Herman Hesse's classic novel "Siddhartha" has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers, in this story of a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege to seek spiritual fulfilment . Hesse synthesises disparate philosophies-- Eastern religions , Jungian archetypes , Western individualism--into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man's search for true meaning.   The filmmaker Conrad Rooks made a film in 1972 based on the Novel "Siddhartha".   Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist.   His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped to shape his literary work.   THE GLASS BEAD GAME: The final novel of Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game, is a fascinating tale of the complexity of ...

  FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS  & THE TORRENTS OF SPRING  BY ERNEST  HEMINGWAY   For Whom the Bell Tolls & The Torrents of Spring are  Novels written by American author Ernest Hemingway.     My all-time favorite author is Ernest Hemingway.  Hemingway influenced me from my teens and remained a cult figure throughout my life. Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Hemingway's direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators but no equals.     Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899. His father, Clarence E. Hemingway, was a doctor, and his mother was a Painter and Pianist. His dad taught him how to catch fish, hunt, set up a camp, and cook over a fire. Ernest was the second of six ch...