Literature

Flooded with wishes yesterday on Teacher’s Day (Sept 5), my imagination conjured up the image of a teacher like Mr. Braithwaite. At an impressionable age of 21, when I watched...

As our car touches the sturdy village road of a certain height, it doesn’t seem like a regular December morning one might be out to visit their old schoolteacher. On...

On the birthday of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Aug 30), I cannot help but remember her most popular creation Victor Frankenstein. An extremely ambitious scientist who aspired to create human life...

Preamble I am thinking back to the year 1997, which will explain the genesis of this book and the fact of it being inscribed to the memory of Ganeswar Mishra....

Today, on International Day for the remembrance of slave trade and its abolition (August 23), my mind wanders off to Uncle Tom - the faithful African-American slave in Harriet Beecher...

Know Thou we are all souls, we are the eternal; Veda points to the path of righteousness in action and wisdom ; Great is our cultural legacy and great is...

On the occasion of 74th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said economic growth and development should be the focus of the country but humanism should not be sidelined in...

The doors: Doors at the front, Doors at the back, Doors above doors, Doors next to the doors. Doors in the village, Doors by the lanes, Doors in shopping malls...

Bollywood/Hollywood actor Priyanka Chopra has finally finished writing her memoir, titled 'Unfinished'. On Tuesday, she took to Twitter to share how excited she is to present the book whose every...

Bhubaneswar: Children can be empowered through literature and hence it is imperative to write for them keeping in mind their age and needs, said eminent writer Dash Benhur here on...