Manisha Mishra

 It was the birth anniversary of Jnanpith award winner Ashapurna Devi a couple of days ago (Jan 8).  Also, a Padmi Shri awardee in 1976 and a recipient of the prestigious Sahitya Akademi…

On the 190th birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule, celebrated as National Women’s Day, exemplary Odia writer Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Rebati comes to mind. Born on January 3, 1831, Savitribai…

Today is December 6 – the day on which Vladimir Nabakov finished writing his famous novel ‘Lolita’ in 1953. Little did he imagine his book would become so controversial and his character…

Feasting on fairy tales in my childhood, the one story that amazed me was the famous tale of the Beauty and the Beast. I remember an illustrated book which had the picture of a lion-head…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been voted as the 2020 ‘Winner of Winners’ (Women’s prize for Fiction) a couple of days ago for her novel ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’. This took my imagination to one…

Some literary characters gain much more prominence than their creator. One such creation is Count Dracula (popularly referred to as ‘Dracula’) who was more influential than Irish author Bram…

Recently, I watched Ben Wheatley’s ‘Rebecca’ (2020) and my senses hovered to the famous line: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again”…this sentence often disturbs my equilibrium and…

As the world celebrates International Artists Day today (Oct 25), I am reminiscing about the connection between art and literature. There are so many literary books and characters that have…

With the birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge round the corner on October 21, I obviously got reminded of his most beautiful creation - the vulnerable ancient Mariner who sins and learns by…

October 11, 2012, was first observed as International Day of the Girl Child. Today, after eight years females are still perceived to be unequal to men in getting the rights they deserve.…