Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore is one of those novels that seems to shift shape each time a reader revisits it. It is at once a philosophical puzzle, a coming-of-age story, a mythopoetic dreamscape and a meditation on memory,…
Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those rare novels that you either read with an over-eager academic mind or with the casual curiosity of someone who just wants to see what the fuss is all about.…
Why Philosophy is the Ultimate Mind Hack for Our Distracted Age There’s a moment that every true philosophy reader knows—the moment when a book stops being ink on paper and becomes a mental earthquake. You’re reading casually, maybe sipping coffee,…
Imagine a world where every belief you hold is subjected to the cold, unflinching light of reason, where the dogmas of religion, politics, and tradition are stripped of their emotional fervour and examined for their truth. This is the world…
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…
