Suggested Reading (and viewing) - Behes @ Ghaziabad

Hello!

We haven't really being updating the blog as much as we'd like, but we've had three tournaments in the intervening period and are gearing up for the Ghaziabad round at Indirapuram Public School, Pratap Vihar on 1-2 May.

This is where the motions will come from:

Senior Division

Literature:

Franz Kafka's 'A hunger Artist' - http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/literature/kafka/hunger.pdf

Vikram Seth’s ‘The frog and the nightingale - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-frog-and-the-nightingale/

Friedman On India (Economics) - http://ccs.in/sites/all/books/com_books/friedman-on-india.pdf

Roald Dahl’s ‘Television’ - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/television/

Philosophy:

Ten oxherding pictures - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/exeas/resources/oxherding.html

Jean Paul Sartre’s ‘Existentialism is a Humanism’ - http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm

Music:

John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUGSYDKUxU

Movie:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Bonus:

Serious Politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9nCPQ2_FlQ

‘Cubs’ Division

A few themes:

·         School life

·         Dreams

·         Sports

·         Families

Literature:

Langston Hughes’ ‘Dreams’ and ‘Harlem’ - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dreams-2/ and http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175884

Robert Frost’s ‘The road not taken’ - http://www.bartleby.com/119/1.html

Music:

Pink Floyd’s ‘We don’t need no education’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj3dIo8PDjs

Movie:

Home Alone (1990)

Bonus:

Indian Mario - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN9XX-dd0LQ