A
special lecture was delivered to the students by Assistant Professor Ms. Aabroo
Sharma on the birth anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley to eulogize his
scholarly merits. A lyricist with
finesse, a romantic to the core and a staunch radical, Shelley made
unprecedented contributions in the field of academia. His poetry dealt with
themes of the power of nature, mortality, atheism, oppression and revolution.
Nature, he believed, operated not on a divine plane but at a subliminal level.
His cynical writings splashed with political hues were clearly not in line with
the times of his day. His politically incensed temperament earned him a bad
name and at the same time made revolutionary thinkers like Karl Marx, who found
recluse in his writings, embrace socialism. The lecture proved fruitful in
apprising the students with the life and feats of a man who received
recognition which was his due much later after his death.
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