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  • Is the World Getting Better or Worse?

    Is the world getting better? A look at the news headlines would suggest otherwise. The world is doomed. Rich are getting richer, poor are getting poorer. Air-pollution is going to take millions of lives. This could very well be the end of the western civilisation. The society is disintegrating at a surprising pace. When we…

  • George Orwell’s Reflections on Gandhi

    In his essay, Reflections on Gandhi, Orwell tries to examine Gandhi’s principle of Satyagraha and how he applied this principle during his political struggle against the British. Let’s take a closer look.

  • Read Aloud, Write Aloud: Margaret Atwood’s Advice

    Whenever I’m asked to talk about what constitutes a “good” story, or what makes one well-written story “better” than another, I begin to feel very uncomfortable. Once you start making lists or devising rules for stories, or for any other kind of writing, some writer will be sure to happen along and casually break every…

  • A 19th-Century Advisory on Romantic Love

    You’ve been in love, of course! If not you’ve got it to come. Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once. One never need be afraid of catching it a second time. The man who has had it can go into the…

  • Have Grammar Rules Changed?

    Of course, they have. Grammar is not a static idea; it evolves with the passage of time, exposure to new ideas and cultures, and intrusion of some creative geniuses. That’s why it is important to recognise that many of the grammar and style rules you were taught never to break may have changed. In fact,…

  • Gossips from the Mughal Courts

    In all of Delhi’s history, at no period was that thin dress of civilisation more beautiful – or more woven – than during the first half of the seventeenth century, during the Golden Age of Shah Jehan. After the death of his beloved queen Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jehan decided to move his court from Agra…

  • Richard Dawkins Tells the Story of Human Eye

    Long after The Origin of Species was published Charles Darwin confessed, in a letter to an American colleague: ‘The eye, to this day, gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shoulder.’ It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say…

  • What Happens When a Sufi’s Wife Cheats on Him

    Part of Rumi’s Masnavi, a series of six books of poetry, is the story about The Sufi and His Cheating Wife. Here is what it means when translated to English.