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Characters & Colours: When A Traveller Outpaces Time & Lands In The Future
The term ‘time machine’ coined by H G Wells, whose birth anniversary is on September 21, has been commonly used after the publication of his novel “The Time Machine” (1895). Like most of the…
Characters & Colours: Of COVID-Induced Isolation & A Marooned Robinson…
With Khurda of late reporting the highest number of COVID-19 positive cases in Odisha on Saturday, I began thinking of writer Daniel Defoe’s quote: “Fear of danger is ten thousand times more…
Braithwaite: A Teacher Who Made A Difference
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 “To Sir, With…
Can Man Create Man? Human Ambition Lives In Frankenstein
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…
To Behave Like An Uncle Tom; Why An Insult?
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…
Tagore’s Gora: Where Humanism Triumphs Over Fanaticism
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…
Madame Bovary: The Recipe Of A ‘Perfect’ Literary Character?
Emma Bovary, widely known as Madame Bovary, is perhaps one of the most popular literary characters created by French writer Gustave Flaubert in his novel of the same name. The novel was…