Victorian novels have a distinct appeal. While social justice was the dominant theme in the works of the great Charles Dickens, other novelists explored different ideas in their works. In addition to the famous Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Bronte, Oscar Wilde,…
Reading novels may bring joy, pleasure, knowledge, wisdom and a good score in examinations depending upon your situation. While many want to extract joy out of their reading, some novels offer many things (as add-ons for free you get during…
Indian literature has been rich, traditionally as well as in any way you would like to scrutinise this. Like its culture and civilisation, great history and even the ruins of the golden years that we associate with the term mythology,…
D H Lawrence's classic novel Sons and Lovers, published in 1913, is still a work that is prescribed in the syllabus of various universities in India and outside. The novel has crossed over 100 years and still finds its place…
I have been a reader for almost all my life. (Given that we consider life only after the day we become aware of ourselves and we are able to read and understand things our own way.) I have read many…
“All things are studied, all the branches of human knowledge have their courses and their handbooks. Why alone should the combinations of the chessboard evade the enquiries of science?” And the author, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, is absolutely right in his analogy…
Jiddu Krishnamurti is certainly one of the most followed spiritual leaders in contemporary times. The best thing about him is that he did not take the usual course of telling people what divinity might be or how one can achieve…
What is God? Who is God? Why is God and how is God… there are many questions like these that often pop-up in our thoughts, more than often if I may say – human life is too fragile at times…
Kanthapura is a novel by Raja Rao, the famous Indian novelist, takes you back to the time when India was a slave of Britishers and struggling for her freedom. The book takes you the time when caste system was heavily…
Today, in this article, I will attempt to put a very unique review, from a unique perspective, of the novel The Guide, written by R. K. Narayan and considered one of the classics in English literature, in the Indian context.…
