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Indian Writing in English and Kamala Das
A Tribute to the Writer and Poet
By Rajdeep Pathak
Makarand Paranjape in one of his writings once remarked: "Indian English Literature is a contest over the nature, identity and ultimately the destiny of modern India. Of late, the realistic, modernistic, pessimistic mode of the first three decades of post-independence writing is giving way to a non-representational, experimental, self-conscious and optimistic literature. But the real challenge the writers of today face is the enforced homogenization and standardization of culture due to globalization and the new, easy and superficial internationalism which tempts Indian English writers to market themselves abroad".
Having said this, it also needs to be mentioned that there has been a movement to take Indian writing across the globe. Fictional writings and even representations of nature and characters in its best form by writers like Amitabh Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie have taken Indian writing and writers to great heights. These are efforts of several generations of Indian authors writing in English that have resulted in international success, particularly since the publication of Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie. The Indian novel in English has finally been accepted as an important literary endeavour.
It could also be mentioned that Indian women writers have begun to gain recognition – thanks to Arundhati Roy winning the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things in 1997.
Prior to the rise of the novel, many Indian women composed poetry and short stories in Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada. Women were the chief upholders of a rich oral tradition of story-telling, through myths, legends, songs and fables.
But the major movement in post-independence Indian English poetry has been modernism. Poets like Saojini Naidu, Toru Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, and later Nissim Ezekiel and even Henry Derozio came up to their own time in an unbroken sequence.
They were the modernists who preferred to think of themselves as the inventors of new poetics, a new generation without literary ancestors. The 1950's and 1960's saw poets like Dom Moraes, P Lal, P Nandy, A K Ramanujan, Jayanta Mahapatra, K N Daruwalla, Kamala Das to name a few, each having a style and craftsmanship of his/her own. Such poets such as Moraes frequently resorted to a variety of person or masks behind to hide themselves; others like Jayanta Mahapatra have repeatedly explored both external and internal poverty and sorrow with remarkable persistence.
Born into a literary family, Kamala Das' mother, Balamani Amma and Uncle Nalapat Narayana Menon, were both leading poets. Das began writing only after her early marriage – only to cope up with – the emotional strain she was undergoing. She was born on March 31, 1934 in Malabar, Kerala. However, strong and true to her convictions, she made no compromises with her conventional society's expectations from women.
Kamala Das originated a vigorous and poignant feminine confessional poetry, in which the underlying theme was the exploration of the man-woman relationship. This style was subsequently taken up by other women poets such as Gauri Deshpande, Suniti Namjoshi, and Chitra Narendran.
The poignant and provocative autobiography of Kamala Das, My Story contains an open statement about the poet's efforts to define and expose the prison in which she finds herself trapped. The predominant theme is the difficulty of being a woman in Indian society and finding love. She says that women finds male lust and indifference, and, therefore, rejected the very institution of arranged marriage.
Critics felt that with her exclusive dealing with these problems, she at times seemed to be too preoccupied with love and sex.
Marriage did not offer her any solace, instead she found – and faced – a male-oriented world of sex and lust. Das herself wrote: "…every morning I told myself that I must raise myself from the desolation of my life and escape, escape into another life and into another country".
Das' protest against such a system made her turn a 'rebel'. Her offended feminine self went on emotional wanderings attempting to explore an identity and freedom. Nevertheless, her traditional make-up of a conventional woman was a factor which persistently forbade her from breaking away completely from the role of a traditional wife. A conflict naturally arose between the passivity and rebellion against the male oriented universe. And the conflict persisted all through her life.
It was this conflict that caused shock time and again to the readers and people who were close to Kamala Das. However, her achievement as a poet was that her poetry gave a different definition of poetry altogether.
Her 'feminine sensibility' can be described as her personal self; her feelings as a woman, her physical desires and her evolution from teenage bride to an adolescent and a 'mother figure'.
The poetry of Kamala Das gives a very less evidence to have been subjected to the recovery of wholeness and unity of being. Her poetry was concerned mostly with herself as a fiction of circumstances and sexual humiliations. Her voice was distinctly feminine intoning the organic mission of her female self's longing for love.
With hot blooded sincerity, Das always expressed the need of the feminine self for love. And that is why her poetry gave the uninhibited picture of man-woman relationship with all its crude manifestations.
K R Sreenivasa Iyengar once remarked about her poetry that she treated her poetry as "An attractive, protective or defiant cover to hide the nakedness of the self, but more often than not an engine of catharsis, a way of agonized self-knowledge".
Even with all the limitations of her poetic self, the poetry of Kamala Das took on herself the burden of the feminine self's mission to grasp the world and be grasped by it in its totality.
Poems such as The Dance of the Eunuchs, provides a concrete hint to identity crisis that hers feminine arch poetic self encountered. The poem symbolized the 'songs of melancholy' of the emptiness. It was the manifesto of the poetic self's unresolved tensions between the desire and the spasm.
On another occasion, what her poetic self encountered throughout the entire volume of Summer in Calcutta was the awareness of the hollowness of this hell rendering, 'the heart an empty cistern, waiting for long hours'.
Further, The Freaks was only filled with 'Coiling Snakes of Silence'. In Love exposed her 'wandering lust' as a sad lie. Here her sexual experiences complete sexuality. The sense of fulfillment dominated poems like Winters.
As a poet strongly committed to the sexual world, Kamala Suraiyya (Das) always tried to identify love with physical emptiness. To her this identification was an attempt to redefine her own identity and sustain a meaningful relationship.
It was her suffering that led her to seek place in another's arm to knock at another's door –"…yearned for a man from/Another town", as she writes in The Wild Bougainville.
Readers were witnessed to a different form of writing in Introduction that was concerned with the question of human identity, and was related to the urges and inevitable predicament of encountering a problem: "What am I?" Here Das presented her rebellious stance against conventional hypocrisy.
In The Maggots from the collection, "The Descendants", Das corroborated just how old the sufferings of women were. She framed the pain of lost love with ancient Hindu myths. On their last night together, Krishna asks Radha if she is disturbed by his kisses. Radha says, "No, not at all, but thought, What is/ It to the corpse if the maggots nip?" Radha's pain is searing, and her silence is given voice by Das. Furthermore, by making a powerful goddess prey to such thoughts, it served as a validation for ordinary women to have similar feelings.
Das once herself said in an interview to the Warrior, "I always wanted love, and if you don't get it within your home, you stray a little". Though some might label Das as "a feminist" for her candor in dealing with women's needs and desires, Das, according to many others has never tried to identify herself with any particular version of feminist activism.
Poet Eunice de Souza claims that Das has "mapped out the terrain for post-colonial women in social and linguistic terms". Kamala Suraiyya Das had ventured into areas unclaimed by society and provided a point of reference for her colleagues. She had transcended the role of a poet and simply embraced the role of a very honest woman.
With her manifold experiences as a writer, a woman, a wife and above all a mother, Kamala Suraiyya Das has been credited as one of the few writers who understood feminism to the core.
With many books and verses to her credit, Kamala Das has published many novels and short stories in English, as well as in Malayalam. Some of her work in English includes the novel Alphabet of Lust (1977), a collection of short stories called Padmavati, The Harlot and Other Stories (1992), in addition to five books of poetry: Summer in Calcutta (1965), The Descendants (1967), The Old Playhouse and Other Poems (1973), The Anamalai Poems (1985), and Only the Soul Knows How to Sing (1996); a collection of poetry with Pritish Nandy (1990) and her autobiography, My Story (1976). Some of her more recent novels in Malayalam include Palayan (1990), Neypayasam (1991), and Dayarikkurippukal (1992).
As Devindra Kohli once said, "Her poetry is a compulsion neurosis, so intense is her need to find release from her emotions" that she longs freedom and a much higher release of herself which she finds in God. Kamala Das herself says, "…as free from the last human bondage…"
Kamala Das lived alone in her world with feelings of loneliness and yet maintained her tradition, the security of her home. She always felt that poetry meant studying life and its objectivity in a very realistic way. Kamala Das died at the age of 75, leaving three sons behind after fighting a long battle with Diabetes.
Known for her frank and explicit expression on matters of sexuality, Kamala Das' writings focused on love, betrayal and the resultant agony that often unsettled the orthodox readers. She leaves behind a legacy that is hard to be fulfilled, a legacy where she could touch human heart with her lucid and charming style and great economy of words.
The world of poetry and prose will miss her for long. Farewell Kamala Suraiyya Das.
Kamala Das: Indian poet and writer
June 13, 2009
Das: she had a "talent for expressing complex sentiments simply
and an unsettling, bewildering honesty"
Kamala Das – alias Kamala Suraiyya was one of India's finest authors, the mother of modern English Indian poetry, and the first Hindu woman to write frankly about sexual desire. Admired by those seeking better living conditions and human rights for women, Das was a writer who could be tender and biting, sometimes in the same sentence.
She was favourably compared to Sylvia Plath, among others. Critics hailed Das for burying 19th-century diction, sentiment and romanticised love, as no Indian woman had done before. Her first collection of poems, entitled The Sirens, appeared in 1964 and won her the Asian Poetry Prize. In 1965, at the age of 31, Das published Summer in Calcutta, after which Oxford University Press declared that: "The mentors of sham manners and peddlers of decadent morality wound up their shops and ran out by the backdoor." The Old Playhouse and Other Poems followed in 1973, defying taboos with poems about marital discord, sexual ecstasy, loneliness and longing.
In the mid-1970s her confessional memoir My Story brought her celebrity but also a degree of notoriety, a condition that sometimes entertained but more often dogged her life. My Story was an instant bestseller, read then for its comparatively open sexuality even though Das considered it to be "a very serious, very tragic story of an Indian girl who had been sacrificed by the laws of the land". Acknowledging her creative and personal courage, the poet Balan Chullikkad called her "the first feminist emotional revolutionary of our time". The Indian tabloids labelled her "the Love Queen of Malabar".
Along with English poetry, memoirs and newspaper columns, Das wrote in Malayalam (the language of southwest India) stories, novels and plays under the pen name Madhavikutty. A celebrated autobiographical trilogy immortalised a vanished pre-independence rural world, and her contemporary stories reflected the tensions and turmoil buffeting the southwest Indian Keralites in their transition from the old world to the new. Malayalis of all ages and religions called her Amma, mother.
One of Das's best-known stories, A Doll for the Child Prostitute, was inspired by a visit to a brothel. In it, two girls, barely even teenagers, play hopscotch. A man appears and the madam summons one of the girls who asks her friend to keep her hopscotch stone in its place. "I'll be back in a few minutes," she says. The story also tells how a police inspector gets free sex at the brothel and promises the girl a doll if she will be kind to him like, he says, his daughter is.
A novel, Alphabet of Lust, appeared in 1977, and in 1992 a collection of short stories, Padmavati the Harlot and Other Stories, was published. Two collections of poetry, Only the Soul Knows How to Sing and Yaa Allah, appeared in 1996 and 2001 respectively.
Antara Dev Sen, a close follower of Das's work and the editor of The Little Magazine, a Delhi-based literary periodical, summed up her contribution: "Her talent for expressing complex sentiments simply, her unsettling, bewildering honesty, and in-your-face sexuality made her not just a literary icon but a woman whom readers deeply loved."
Following the publication of My Story, Das's serious writing was hijacked by a press that sensationalised her life rather than celebrating her literary stature. Prurient and moralistic critiques persisted until the 1990s, when a new generation of writers and critics accorded her the honours due to one of India's foremost poets and the woman whom the writer Shahnaz Habib eulogised, using vocabularly closely reminiscent of a W. H. Auden verse, as "noon, midnight, talk and song to those who came after her".
Believing in the social responsibility of the writer, she established a free legal service for evicted wives. She also spoke publicly on behalf of the homeless, mentored young writers, sent disenfranchised women to college, supported orphanages, lepers, neighbours, welcomed everyone to her receiving room, and fought to enact and enforce laws to end the sexual exploitation of children, a cause she passionately espoused. In 1984 she made an unsuccessful attempt to be elected to the Indian Parliament
Das was born in 1934 in her ancestral home, Nalapat house in Punnayurkulam, in the southwest Indian state of Kerala, to an upper-caste Nayar family with a literary and royal lineage. She spoke English in Calcutta and Malayalam, the South Dravidian official language of Kerala, with her grandmother in Malabar, and had a gift for writing with lyric beauty in both languages.
At 15 she entered into an arranged marriage to an older relative who worked for the Reserve Bank of India and had three sons. In an interview in 1997 she explained the background. "My father was a patriarch, an autocrat. He roared at us and gave us no intimacy. He wanted always to control us or to send us away. My mother lay on her bed, writing religious poetry, not intervening in any way. I was desperate for love.
"To punish us, we were sent to boarding schools where we were treated with subtle forms of sadism. When my father could no longer do that, and after I had rheumatic fever, he called our relative Das and asked him to take me off his hands. So I married him."
Recalling her formative years in verse, in a poem entitled An Introduction, she wrote: ". . . I am Indian, very brown, born in / Malabar, I speak three languages, write in / Two, dream in one . . ."
Das converted to Islam at the age of 67, and took the name Kamala Suraiyya. Some say she was converted by a visionary experience, others say she converted for love. It was the final grandly impulsive choice of a rebel who defied categorisation and mocked societal convention but who, drawing on tradionally based standards of purity, maintained her dignity and used her powerful celebrity in the service of others.
Das died in Pune, in northwestern India, where she had lived since 2007 near the family of her youngest son, Jaisurya. Her body was flown to her home state of Kerala, where thousands of mourners of all ages paid homage, weeping and placing flowers on her hearse during her funeral procession. The proceedings were covered live on television, and the procession stopped at public halls in Trichur, Cochin, Alleppey, Kollam and Trivandrum.
Her funeral at the Palayam Mosque in Trivandrum reflected her ecumenical spirituality: admirers of all faiths attended the service, party leaders spoke personally and non-politically, and for the first time in India women stood at the graveside in a Muslim service. Those attending were reminded of her lines, from Advice to Fellow Swimmers: "Go, swim in the sea, / Go swim in the great blue sea, / Where the first tide you meet is your body, / That familiar pest, / But, if you learn to cross it, / You are safe, yes, beyond it you are safe . . ."
Das is buried in a grove in the grounds of the Palayam Mosque, adjoining a temple, near a church. Newly planted neermathalam saplings, like those from her family's snake shrine, will flower with the scent of jasmine by her graveside. She gave her ancestral land in Punnayurkulam to the Sahitya Akademi. On her last visit there she said: "I shall return as a kingfisher seeking the scent of the neermathalam, hovering above the ponds."
Das is survived by her three sons.
Kamala Das, poet and writer, was born on March 31, 1934.
She died of acute pneumonia on May 31, 2009, aged 75
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If you happen to be including a visit to the Mall of America near Minneapolis in your summer (or future) travel plans, be sure to set aside a few minutes to tackle the Flying Dutchman, especially if the kids are with you. Tucked in the corner of the mall's enclosed theme park, Nickelodeon Universe, this climbing adventure experience gives you a first-hand look at what it's like to be tied off to steel framing six stories up.
For a very reasonable fee (about $6, if that's all you choose to do) participants don a full-body harness and climb to the top of the steel framework. Then, fully tethered, they go back and forth across cables, beams and other tenuous crossings as they work their way back down to terra firma.
Although this attraction has a pirate ship theme — hence its name, the Flying Dutchman — it provides a good approximation of what it's like to navigate steel framework before the rest of the structure is in place. It claims to be the tallest Sky Trail ropes course in the world, challenging guests to climb 56 feet above Nickelodeon Universe.
Incidentally, the track for the sliding tether anchorage makes for some pretty fancy connections. Click the photo to see one close up.


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The more I look at this draft class the more I want to keep our picks. There may not be a lot of stars in this class, but there seem to be a lot of nba ready players that can contribute right away.
Everybody seems to be advocating a trade of our picks for a ,less than ideal, center and overpaying some free agents to bolster our roster. I don't see that as the best choice though. There are several serviceable centers out there that can fill the void while our team grows and would not break the bank. There are also a lot of prospects in the draft that would fit our sixth man role and would cost us a fraction of the Evans, Reddick, Mayo type signings.
Would the addition of Gortat/evans be significantly better than adding players like Dalembert/ McCullum/ O'neil and a player like trevor Ariza? The point being that keeping our picks allows us to acquire more assets at a cheaper price and being less dependent on those assets individually. We already have a core of guys who can handle the scoring load. We need depth and size. I am all for swinging for the fences, but when the options are between a popping out just shy of the wall and a base hit, I prefer the base hit.
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Home Improvements You Were Once Afraid To Buy Online
June 16, 2010 | Posted By: Jonathan Bentz
Anyone who's ever set out on a home improvement task knows that shopping for the stuff needed online is NEVER easy.
Blame overwhelming online stores, or sites that offer free products in exchange for subscriptions to 13 crappy magazines, or eBay bidders who have faster internet browsers that beat your "winning" bid with 30 seconds to go. It seems no matter where you shop online for home improvement products, nothing is as easy online as strolling into a store, asking the clerk who knows as much about the product you need as YOU do for help, aimlessly wandering about the store for 30 minutes and then...
buying it yourself.
Have no fear, however, faithful online home improvement web shoppers - things are starting to get better for you. For starters, many online stores are now submitting their product feeds to places like Google Shopping, wikis like ShopWiki, and shopping social networks like The Find. These networks and sites make shopping online for products much easier for online shoppers.
Massive network sites like these aren't the only things making it easier for shoppers. In addition to having trusted networks to submit their products to, online stores are getting much better about maintaining stock of products they sell very well thanks to improved analytics programs.
Below are five things many people were once afraid to buy online, for a variety of reasons, during a home improvement project. But now, thanks to technology improvements, quality online resources, niche stores with low prices and availability, and access to tons of consumer reviews, home improvement DIYers you can now shop and buy these products with confidence on the tubes.
1. Cupolas
Cupolas are great to add to the roof of a house, barn, garage, or shed because they improve air ventilation and add to the visual appeal of a building at the same time. However, because of the knowledge most people need to purchase a cupola (building size, roof pitch, etc.), it hasn't been a very popular product to buy on the internet. Now, with sizing diagrams, roof pitch calculators, and wholesale prices available online, buying cupolas can be an easy and rewarding process.
2. Luxury Appliances
Buying luxury appliances online has always been a risky proposition online. Some luxury appliance dealers offered serious disounts online that seemed "too good to be true"... and they were. Also, many banner ads promising free luxury appliances were misleading, forcing consumers looking for discounted appliances to fill out forms for tons of other products to get access to their product of interest. Thanks to consumer education and increased access to luxury appliances, products like Sub-Zero refrigerators can now be researched and purchased online with legitimate rebate programs. Plus, if there is a company scamming consumers, there are plenty of watchdog websites out there to call out the fake special.
3. Repair Guide
Without the right repair guide, first time home improvers are often at a disadvantage. Consumer product reviews and bloggers who review products have made buying repair guides online easier because potential buyers can read about a guide and get honest feedback BEFORE they buy it. Before web 2.0 tools were added to many shopping websites, too many people had to buy repair guides online by simply judging the book "by its cover." Not the case anymore.
4. Flooring
Browsing different flooring options was once tough online because every thumbnail image was presented in something like 160 pixels! Also, the lack of interactive online space planners made it really tough to buy the exact square footage consumers with custom floor spaces required. Thanks to the development of web 2.0 tools like interactive interior space planners and the improvement of web speed and image hosting - finding the right flooring for a home in the convenience of a home has bever been easier.
5. Green Home Products
Once a niche market both online and off, the green market has grown extensively over the last several years due to increased public interest in the environment. In addition to the increased interest, an influx of websites into the online marketplace for green products continues to drive the price of these products down. Because of the abundance of green online stores, there has likely never been a better time to buy green online.
Guest Blogger Jonathan Bentz is a marketing consultant who works with several companies in the home improvement sector. As a first time homeowner, he is quickly learning the value in finding the best things to buy online... and what to buy offline instead.
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November 9, 2010 | Posted By: thankyou2
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One home improvement we found was surprisingly easy was getting a custom kitchen backsplash. The custom printed tiles had a picture we selected. The tile mural was made by http://www.custom-tiles.com and looked as good as the original photo! Your blog is right about browsing for flooring, and now the custom-tiles people have good looking floor tile pictures on their website.
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East Lancs heroin addict jailed for burglary spree (From Burnley and Pendle Citizen)
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East Lancs heroin addict jailed for burglary spree
4:00pm Friday 2nd May 2014 in News By Andrew Bellard, Court reporter
A FIRST-time burglar who went on a five house spree in as many days has been jailed for two years and four months.
Drug addict Vicky Parkinson had been to Thailand, kicked her habit but had then gone back on heroin when she returned, was living on the streets and had woken up in a backyard.
The 45-year-old mother was caught in a family home rummaging through coats and had sneaked into another property and stolen a handbag.
Burnley Crown Court heard how Parkinson was on a suspended sentence at the time, imposed after she was part of a drugs gang and had driven their vehicle at a police officer. She had a long record, but no previous convictions for burglary.
The defendant, from Colne, but of no fixed address, had admitted two counts of burglary and had asked for three offences, at Beech Street, King Street and Roundell Street, Barnoldswick, to be considered.
The offences were committed between March 14 and 18.
Joseph Allman, prosecuting, said on March 18, a man left his address on Regent Street, Nelson, for 15 minutes. His mother, sister and grandmother were still inside.
When he returned, he saw Parkinson in the hall, going through some coats. She claimed she was looking for Mohammed, the victim tried to block her path, but she climbed over a fence and ran away. His wallet had been stolen.
Mr Allman said the defendant was stopped by police outside Colne Asda and the stolen wallet was in a bag. Also in it were a purse and contents and prescription belonging to a woman who lived in Bevan Place, Nelson. Officers went to her home and it was only then she realised she had been the victim of a sneak-in burglary.
She said she had heard her dogs barking at about 10pm, but couldn't find anything amiss. A bag which had been hanging on the kitchen door was missing. Parkinson had 47 offences on her record. Richard Taylor, for Parkinson, said: "Her avowed intent is to come out of this sentence free of drugs again and to try and rehabilitate herself with her family.
"Her partner with whom she went to Thailand died two or three weeks ago."
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If the importers, dealers, middle-men and the Mr. Bigs of the drug trade knew they would be hanged if convicted, they would probably turn to some other type of criminal activity.
We should also be using Special Forces to hunt down and kill the growers and drug-gang bosses in other countries. Shoot them, shoot their families, shoot the bent cops who protect them. If necessary, load cruise missiles with Agent Orange and launch them against the areas where the plants are grown. If the chemical causes hideous deformities in the children of the growers - tough.
Don't grow your filth and ship it to the UK or we kill your kids. I think they would understand such actions - it's only our weak-kneed, soft-left, pathetic politicians who lock the balls to undertake such action.
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THREE people were hospitalised following a road accident in Caerphilly yesterday.
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This Giant Tiger store in Ontario is offering a strange new deal
Employees at a Giant Tiger store in Ingersoll, Ont., probably got some weird questions this week when the store — whether it knew it or not — started offering "vagina pie" for the very reasonable price of $2.97.
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Digging deeper for a comparison to Warriors rookie Anthony Randolph yields a very interesting listFiled under: News; Tagged as: Anthony Randolph, Artis Gilmore, David Robinson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Josh Smith, Lamar Odom, Mike Green, Shaquille O'Neal
By Geoff Lepper
Everyone keeps wanting to compare Warriors rookie forward Anthony Randolph to Lamar Odom or Josh Smith or some other current NBA player.
For a true statistical comparison to Randolph's rookie season, however, you have to delve farther back into the NBA's history books.
Since the league started tracking blocked shots as a stat in 1973, there have been only a handful of rookies who have played at least 890 minutes (the same amount Randolph clocked heading into Friday's game with the New Orleans Hornets) and put up per-minute averages as high or better than Randolph's in terms of scoring (21.3 points per 48 minutes), rebounding (15.5) and blocks (3.6).
And let's just say the list puts Randolph in pretty good company.
In chronological order:
** Hakeem Olajuwon (HOU, 1984-85, 27.9 points, 16.0 rebounds, 3.6 blocks per 48 minutes)
** David Robinson (SAS, 1989-90, 31.9, 15.7, 5.1)
** Shaquille O'Neal (ORL, 1992-93, 29.6, 17.5, 4.5)
That's it.
Two rookies matched the numbers in the old ABA: Artis Gilmore (KEN, 1971-72, 26.2, 19.5, 5.5) and Mike Green (DEN, 1973-74, 26.3, 17.0).
Other NBA players came close to matching Randolph (most notably Bill Walton), and certainly there are old-school players who debuted before 1973 who undoubtedly would be on the list if blocks had been kept back then (Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, etc., etc.).
But still: Three first-ballot Hall of Famers, plus Anthony Randolph, equals heady stuff for a franchise that historically has been better suited for a 6-foot-8-and-under league.
Despite any statistical resemblances, neither Olajuwon, with his peerless back-to-the-basket game, nor Shaq, a singular talent if ever there was one, looks anything like Randolph on the court.
With Robinson, though, you can see a few similarities – both lefties, with great instincts on the offensive glass, decent range on the jumper (Robinson admittedly being more consistent) and tremendous athleticism that allows them to come from out of nowhere to block shots that should be all rights be baskets.
[Sidebar: It's hard to remember sometimes in light of how many creaking, tottering seasons the Admiral had at the end of his career, but he was a revelation when he burst on the scene, a breath of fresh air at a center position which had grown stale with folks such as Moses Malone, Robert Parish and Bill Laimbeer, James Donaldson, Mark Eaton all clogging the lane like so much bad cholesterol gumming up the aorta of a 400-pound heart attack sufferer.]
There's glaring differences, of course: Robinson was much more fundamentally sound, he has height that Randolph won't ever be able to match, and was far stronger even as a rookie than Randolph is now. And then there's the matter of their diametrically opposed temperaments on the court – unless Robinson had a penchant for tears of which I was previously unaware.
Don't forget, though, that Robinson came into the league at 24 years of age thanks to his four years at Annapolis and two years of naval service. Randolph won't be 24 until after his SIXTH season in the NBA is in the books. By that point in time, I expect that Randolph will have closed the gap – if not eliminated it completely – in terms of strength.
There's no way at this point that Randolph can match Robinson's Rookie of the Year trophy from 1990. But there are still other awards – 10 All-Star appearances, Defensive Player of the Year, MVP – that could be within Randolph's reach.
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J Canseco April 3rd, 2009 at 11:50 am
As always, great work. Most exciting athlete in Bay Area sports since I don't even know when.
I don't know what to think about AR. This off-season will determine his commitment to being an elite player.
The Admiral went to college and served 2 of his 5 years (right?) His rookie year came at an age well beyond AR's 18, He was born 65 and entered the NBA in '89 or about 24 years old.
commish April 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Nice job. Wonder why Nelson didn't notice a few months ago.
Nice get, Geoff. But while we're at it, let's take it one step further.
Randolph has played in only 56 games this year — with seven to go. That means at most he'll play in 63 of the 82 games. ALL of the three mentioned — Hakeem, DR, and Shaq — played at least 81 games, and ALL started at least 81 games.
Randolph has now started a handful, but averages less than 16 minutes a game. None of the three mentioned AVERAGED less than 35 — Hakeem at 35.5, DR at 36.6, Shaq at 37.9. So AR is playing less than HALF the time these guys played their first year, and on a team that has amassed 49 losses (with seven games yet to play). Where's the sense in that????
Randolph has shown talents — on both ends of the court — that make clear he is a special player. He's learned to defend without fouling — the ticky-tacks called in the Kings game notwithstanding. He plays all out all the time. (Hellooooo, Jack.) He's picking up new tricks with increasing frequency, and is now hitting the face-up jumper with some consistency. (He's shooting at 47%, which ain't that bad, either.) He's easily the most fun guy to watch on the court now. (Despite some of Monta's terrific plays, his wretched defense is just too great a limitation to make him as much fun to watch.) When he's on the court the team plays MUCH faster. And, most important, he hasn't let Nelson — and the Fat Man's lunatic style — break him.
So, why hasn't he played more this year? Why was his development artificially stunted for the first 50 games? Why were the Warriors content to go down the drain without playing their young core for so long?
Only one explanation: an idiotic and petulant coach, arrogant beyond belief, who holds grudges forever (Hello, Al!), and is just so limited in his soporific vision that one has to suspend disbelief just to watch him take a pretty good collection of players and turn them into the dreck we've been forced to experience for two years now.
Just think how much better we might be prepared for next year if Nelson had simply worked on defense, developed his young core, and played a fast 9-10 man rotation every game. But instead of progress that was there for the taking, WE got took by a Full Nelson.
Different Joe April 3rd, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Randolph's rookie season has been impressive with respect to rebounding and blocking shots. He also has a penchant for turning the ball over at ridiclous rates and being a terrible scorer w/respect to efficiency.
Off the top of my head 2 other rookie PFs came to mind… Maresse Speights and Kevin Love. Love is having a better season and Speights is arguably having a better season. In addition you can add Beasley into the argument(more of a SF).
This article is just cherry picking stats. You can say this to say it if you want, but drawing any conclusions from this is a waste of time.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/fc/tiny.cgi?id=mBJOS <- comparison
I think Randolph should be compared vs. his peers first and foremost and he is doing a nice job, but he isn't even leading the pack right now…
Pat Burke April 3rd, 2009 at 3:44 pm
The argument that Randolph can be a special player is fine, although even now he is not in the top 20 rookies on Thorpe's list at espn. I like Nellie's assessment: he can do the spectacular but not the ordinary. He has no go to move or any sort of offensive game besides dunks and a set shot that shows potential but isn't automatic by any means.
The argument that Nellie has somehow stunted his growth is BOGUS. Is it really a given that a 19 year old player will develop more if he is given a free reign? He's already played more than Monte has in his first year. It's clear that he needed (and still needs) some discipline — what other carrots/sticks do coaches have besides playing time? He's fun to watch, but clearly needs to work on his game. A lot of practice this summer is key. I am glad Randolph has agreed to stay around and work during the off season.
Nigel Tufnel April 3rd, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I don't know that Randolph is quite as bad as you think with the turnovers. Early on, he was terrible, it's true. He doesn't qualify for minutes, but if he did he'd rank #15 in TO/48, which is bad, but considering how horrendous he was early in the year, maybe not as bad as it seems. Also, there's some pretty good company in the top 15, including Nash, Deron Williams, Yao, Wade, Melo, and Dwight Howard. Since he's shown improvement and he's so young, I'm not *that* worried about his turnovers.
Duff Soviet Union April 4th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Nigel, the difference is that those guys have the ball in their hands all the time. Randolph doesn't. His turnovers, right now, are terrible. But yeah, he will improve in that area. I think it will always be a weakness though.
Do you guys who say that he has been turnover prone even watch the games? I believe that he hasn't had more than 2 in a game in the last 5. Look at box scores. Last night he played 39 minutes, and had 1 turnover while inhaling 15 rebounds, and scoring 20 points against a solid defesive team in New Orleans. Tunrover prone? How about a quick learner? How about only 19 years old? Wow, you guys obviously pay a lot of attention.
He could easily be the 1st pick in this year's draft. Blake Grifin will be a solid NBA player, but won't have the same amount of positive impact on games that Randolph has had, and will have. That was one hell of a pick at 14. Best draft by the W's in years.
justafan April 4th, 2009 at 10:41 am
AR, Beans, Monta, Buki,RT,AM, must stay all others should go But really join the Boycott until Chris Cohan sells the team!!!
Randolph's numbers would look even better except for the fact that Nelson didn't deem him worthy of getting off of the bench the first half of the season. If it wasn't for the lousy season and all the injuries, Nelson would have let him rot on the bench and continued to play small ball the rest of the year. He is just horrible in his handling of young, new, and especially taller players. Mullin's last draft pick will probably turn out to be his best, as long as Nelson and Rowell don't trade him away, which they are incompetant enough to do.
M.Squared April 4th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Nice "did you know" column. Very good work and analysis. Hats off to JSL for the follow. Nice 411.
I was just wondering last night about the rookie blocks record as I watched the game.
For a guy who is 19, i think we can table the turnover debate right now. The fact is that AR plays hard, makes some dumb mistakes ( i.e.- missed dunk in crunch time) but usually works to redeem those mistakes at the other end or on the next play.
The most exciting thing about Randolph is that he likely hasn't even tapped into 1/2 of his full potential and really doesn't have a coach on the W's staff that teaches big men for a living. I would really like to see where his offensive game could go if he were to learn a post up and pick and roll game. AR doesn't even have a real drop step move right now. You can see how Wright and Andris developed this stuff and became a lot better in the post. If AR works on this - he will be tough to guard. His game will also evolve when he slows down a little bit. You can see a lot of tip in's where he over runs the rim or jumps too early. He gets eye's wide open and goes for it. As he develops a little more control- he could be a real nice piece.
I disagree about Love and Speights having a better season. Love is going to be solid but will also be limited in a lot of aspects of his game. I like Speights too- but his play this year hasnt done anything to set him above AR at this point. I think as both play more that debate will solve itself in time.
Anthony Randolph has the talent to become a dominant player in the NBA … but, please, do not ever compare his game to that of players like David Robinson, Hakeem Olajuwon and Shaquille O'Neal.
hey lepper, i was really excited to read this article before i read it can you do another article that has some real comparisons like a kevin garnett, duh came into the league young and tall and dribbling, ok yea AR cant pass but more like garnett then the others mentioned please re-write this same article and put some real comparisons in, come on shaq!wtf
Another set of strictly statistical comparisons :
He looks like the next Shawn Marion, without the 3-point shooting. The comparisions to centers are ridiculous.
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He looks like the next Shawn Marion, without the 3-point shooting. The comparisions to centers are ridiculous.
so, why hasn't he played more this year? Why was his development artificially stunted for the first 50 games? Why were the Warriors content to go down the drain without playing their young core for so long?
This type of information is exactly what I have been looking for, thanks very much for helping me out.
He looks like the next Shawn Marion, without the 3-point shooting. The comparisions to centers are ridiculous.
He looks like the next Shawn Marion, without the 3-point shooting. The comparisions to centers are ridiculous.
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"Reflection is the process of obtaining runtime information about the class or interface."
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Ex2: Class cc = java.lang.String.class (String - predefined class)
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