I have no interest in, or knowledge about, sports. I thought ‘The Day I Became a Runner’, by Sohini Chattopadhyay was not a book that
In the poignant words of Mary Oliver, “Tell me, what is it you want to do with your one wild and precious life?” These lines
The play is set in the 1950s in an Arizonian desert replete with cactuses named Asteroid City which is quite similar to the setting of
It is the climactic moment of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, where the eponymous hero is both Prometheus and Frankenstein. He has been driven by ambition to
“The ‘male gaze’ is a theory propounded by Laura Mulvey. There is no ‘female gaze’ as such because both men and women are equally capable
Koral Dasgupta is an author with a mission. Her mission is to present the stories of the Pancha Kanyas and the five Satis depicted in
The Heavenly Christmas Tree is a short story by the great Russian storyteller Fyodor Dostoyevsky. First published in 1876, the story is also known as
Arthur Symons in his seminal work The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899) introduced and analysed French Symbolist authors. In this essay he discusses the style
His voice was rasping, cold, and monotonous in a low key. He could not be called a talkative personality; but with his detached calm manner
This is a centenary history of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction which Rabindranath Tagore later named Sriniketan (originally known by the name Surul, a village
Entries from the journal of Louisa May Alcott, American author and novelist.
The very first story, “Does Your Cat Speak To You?” is intriguingly told in just six pages. It conveys the trauma many Hindu refugees faced
These questionable controversial verses that came to be known as ‘satanic verses,’ authorized intercessory prayers to al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat — three Meccan female deities.
Paul Gauguin, the post-impressionist artist who redefined the art of his time, had a tumultous life ridden with poverty, illness and personal tragedies. His youngest
Short story by Maxim Gorky from the anthology 'Tales of Two Countries'. Gorky spent a few years (1906-1913) in Capri, Italy. These tales depict the
All the time now Liz was thinking about Jim Gilmore. He didn’t seem to notice her much. He talked about the shop to A. J.
