By: Ramlal Agarwal Rudyard Kipling famously said, “Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” (The Ballad of East and West).” Nevertheless, they not only meet but also walk hand in hand in his…
By: Ramlal Agarwal Unlike The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me is not a controversial work. It is about the life of the novelist and her relationship with her mother, Mary. They are distinctly different…
By Mitali Chakravarty The buoyant chatter in avian voices was so loud that thepark walkers were silenced.The treetop was screaming out the city’s violencethat only birds could observe through the day.Would they now debate, discuss, and advise policy measures? (‘Parliament…
By: Andrew Nickerson Best-selling author Dan Brown’s work has long been a source of discussion and controversy amongst readers and experts alike. His work The Da Vinci Code set the world ablaze with its implications regarding Mary Magdalene, and follow-up…
By Meenakshi Malhotra From Calcutta to Kolkata:City of Dreams by Mitali Chakravarty traverses between worlds and words, as the poet’s eye sweeps across the changing cityscape, from times past recalling the erstwhile stories and narratives of Job Charnock to…
By: Azmat Ali The 19th century in Europe was a period of profound transformation and rapid change in industrialization, urbanization, politics, and intellectual movements. These shifts caused art and literature to turn away from Romanticism toward realism and naturalism. Industrialisation…
By: Azmat Ali The Ramayana—one of the two great epic poems of Hinduism—has been central to South Asian literary, religious, and cultural traditions for over two millennia. Originally composed in Sanskrit and dated to before 300 BCE, the Ramayana is…
By: Azmat Ali Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1953) remains one of the most iconic literary expressions of existentialism in twentieth-century drama. According to Flynn (2006), “Existentialism is a philosophical movement that focuses on individual human freedom, choice, and existence. It holds…
By: Ramlal Agarwal Banu Mushtaq, hardly known beyond her circle of activists and the Bandaya Sahitya movement in Karnataka, has suddenly caught the attention of the literary world by winning the International Booker 2025. She deserves the recognition because she…
By: Ramlal Agarwal It was heartening that Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi novel, “Ret Samadhi,” translated as “Tomb of Sand” by Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize in 2022. Tomb of Sand is an unconventional novel that does away with conventional…