Sunday Column: Characters & Colours

On the 190th birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule, celebrated as National Women’s Day, exemplary Odia writer Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Rebati...

Today is December 6 – the day on which Vladimir Nabakov finished writing his famous novel ‘Lolita’ in 1953. Little...

Feasting on fairy tales in my childhood, the one story that amazed me was the famous tale of the Beauty...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been voted as the 2020 ‘Winner of Winners’ (Women’s prize for Fiction) a couple of days...

Some literary characters gain much more prominence than their creator. One such creation is Count Dracula (popularly referred to as...

Recently, I watched Ben Wheatley’s ‘Rebecca’ (2020) and my senses hovered to the famous line: “Last night I dreamt I...

As the world celebrates International Artists Day today (Oct 25), I am reminiscing about the connection between art and literature....

With the birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge round the corner on October 21, I obviously got reminded of his most...

October 11, 2012, was first observed as International Day of the Girl Child. Today, after eight years females are still...

Considering it is Oct 4, World Animal Day, I am thinking of my favourite animal - the horse: a creature...