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  • Welcome to the World of GK Chesterton

    Some say, he was the greatest writer of the 20th century. Let’s take a ride through his writing and major works.

  • Immanuel Kant’s Dove Metaphor Will Change the Way You Think

    Words matter. They can cheer you up or bring you down. This is the reason why we read and write and love our language dearly — for we know how it influences our lives. Does it always have to be a book (or a play or poem) that alters our perspectives? Could it be a…

  • How to Commit Suicide?

    How to choose death over life? Or vice versa.

  • Inside Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Magical Realism

    Magical Realism is a term quite hard to define. It was first coined in 1949 by the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier to describe the matter-of-fact combination of the fantastic and everyday in Latin American fiction. In other words, in this genre, you’d find magic/supernatural being an integral part of the real world. The fantastical elements…

  • How to Measure Your Life

    In 2010, Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon set out to provide the answers for three basic – but profound – questions that many of us face at one point or the other in our lives. These were: How can you be sure that You will be successful and happy in your career?…

  • How to Read Salman Rushdie

    If you ask someone how to read Salman Rushdie, you would often hear that it’s going to be a hard task. That might be true. At the same time, it’s also true that the effort comes with rewards… and the rewards in this case are outrageously wonderful. Rushdie is not just a storyteller. While telling…

  • How Islam Came to India

    Note: Following excerpts were taken from Khushwant Singh’s non-fiction work ‘India: An Introduction’. Islam came to India before the Muslim conquerors. Arab traders brought Islam to the western coast within a few years of the death of the Prophet. Then in AD 712 the seventeen-year-old Mohammed Bin Qasim invaded Sindh. This incursion was, however, as…

  • How Christianity Came to India

    Note: Following excerpts were taken from Khushwant Singh’s non-fiction work ‘India: An Introduction’. Christianity came very early to India. Thomas Didymus, the apostle, came to Malabar in the year AD 52. Although his mission was to convert Jews who had preceded him to India, once in the country, he decided to take on the gentile…