A student’s chance encounter reveals how compassion, memory, and faith connect past suffering with present human resilience and quiet hope.
The destructive obsession of an artist whose pursuit of life-like perfection in art leads to the tragic death of reality.
My master used to say that these names, as Hindu, Christian, etc., stand as great bars to all brotherly feelings between man and man.
In the cold and darkness, her fragile dreams burned briefly, glowing with warmth before fading into the silent night.
A tender Christmas tale where love’s quiet sacrifices reveal that true wealth lies not in possessions, but in devotion.
Jane Austen, the 19th century English novelist was a prolific letter writer and the greater part of her correspondences was with her elder sister Cassandra.
Milton’s poems are a deep dive into his spirituality, tinged with hope, love and suffering, often ruminating on philosophical matters.
Rossetti’s poems are not just a homage to nature but her very own indomitable nature that sings true even to this day.
Rilke spoke openly and with great insight into the human experience of pain and joy, good and evil and the amalgamate of these.
Silence gathers around us, and in that pause, Pablo Neruda lets the trembling world reveal its hidden wounds and brief hopes.
Snow, silence, and duty converge as Daru faces a moral crossroads on the lonely Algerian plateau in Albert Camus’s *The Guest*.
A surreal journey through Keats’s visions — nightingale’s song, steadfast star, and autumn’s fading warmth merging into dreamlike abstraction.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves.
Although “If” remains Kipling’s most abiding poem, here are four other poems to celebrate his poetic contribution on his birthday.
A celebration of Christmas for many of us around the world is incomplete without a reading of this abiding classic.