Tradition Against Modernity
R K Narayan is a great novelist who still lives in the mind of readers, India as well as abroad. Narayan had more ‘spell-bound power’ and offered a more consistent, prolific output over 66 more years ...
Pamela or Virtue Rewarded
Pamela or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It is considered one of the earliest examples of the English novel and is significant for its exploratio...
Religio Medici
Religio Medici, or The Religion of a Doctor, is a seminal work by Sir Thomas Browne, written in the 17th century. It is a reflective and philosophical text that explores Browne's personal beliefs, exp...
A Delightful Hodgepodge
The Alice books mingle human and animal characters with nursery rhyme figures and game pieces come to life. Alice, of course, is an ordinary little girl from Victorian England. At first, her encounter...
Alice in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story o...
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew title of the Book is Qohelet, a term related to the verb qāhal, “to gather, assemble.” The English name derives from the Greek translation of t...
What I Believe
E M Forster is primarily known as a novelist, short story writer and literary critic of a rare distinction. Though his contribution to English essays is substantial, he has yet to receive the critic...