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The Pluralism of India: Shashi Tharoor
Note: The below excerpts are taken from Shashi Tharoor’s book India: From Midnight to the Millenium and Beyond. My generation grew up in an India where our sense of nationhood lay in the simple thought: That the singular thing about India was that you could only speak of it in the plural. This pluralism emerged… Read more
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Revisiting Malgudi Days
The world first heard about this small town called Malgudi in 1935 when RK Narayan published his first novel Swami and Friends. The town was fictional but everything about it was real. The streets, the cinema, the bank, the haircutting salon, the people believing in Indian astrology on one hand and obsessed with English education… Read more
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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. Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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