It is the nature of man to seek beyond his comfort zone whether to hunt for survival or conquer new territories.
This essay is not just about Desai's latest offering, but an assessment of her works. She is someone whom Salman Rushdie calls, "a magnificent writer."
So what if you do not get to see an original Claude Monet in his maison at a small French village called Giverny. It is
The train from Paris to Béziers in the south of France continues to Barcelona on a two-hour journey.
Sète is a small commune but quite popular as a seaside resort. The first sights as we drive into the city are of the color
The architecture is predominantly Roman; understandably, as the location was on the road that linked Provence with Iberia. The moors also set their footprints during
“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
Sen’s heroines, especially in his later films are everyday workers who could well be typists and saleswomen who came out in droves after partition, gradually
The second city of the Empire was ever growing, more and more people were moving into it for opportunities not only from overseas but from
Toru Dutt with her sister Oru (brother Abuj had already succumbed to tuberculosis at a very early age) along with their parents travelled to France.