I have read satires by Dryden and Shadwell, vyangya by the great Indian authors like Harishankar Parsai and Sharad Joshi. I have also read critical works by the supposed great…
Indian English Poetry offers a great display of diversity if you are careful enough to observe all those and minutely admire the threads that are almost invisible to the carefree…
In India, every critic is a marxist critic emboldened with a great historical and contextual entitlement. And this gives rise to a very judgemental practice of literary criticism that discounts…
I have heard many readers (so-called elite ones), essentially from a literary background, often making wild, loud and abusive claims against so-called contemporary novelists in India who form the so-called…
I am sure that many of us, readers and critics, book reviewers included, become judgemental when it comes to offering an opinion on someone else’s reading list. Ah, so you…
In the contemporary age, there are two kinds of books have become more popular. First, romantic books and second are the self-help books. There may be many reasons that we…
Romantic novels or romance novels or just romance, you can call this genre by many names but all point at, usually, a couple, break-ups, new couples, sex, a few deaths…
Honeymoons are meant to make love? Isn’t it? Well, not only that but also to know your partner, understand the emotional connection between the two and also to understand each…
Novels are often considered (and generally are) better than a collection of short stories. However, on occasions, you may call them special, short stories have that thing to beat novels…
When it comes to understanding spirituality and spiritual ideas by reading books, things have largely been obscure for common readers in India. Understanding these texts might be a little difficult…