Literature

A Crisis That Became an Awakening In the quiet halls of Yasnaya Polyana, Leo Tolstoy wrestled with despair. By...

Agatha Christie and the Paradox of Comfort It may seem paradoxical that the world’s best-selling author devoted her career...

Introduction: Reading Beyond the Canon When we think of Indian Independence literature, the mind recalls Nehru’s Discovery of India...

Today marks the birth anniversary of Enid Blyton, a writer whose name echoes in the childhood memories of millions....

On 10 August, we remember Harishankar Parsai, the voice who gave Hindi literature one of its most enduring forms...

A Novel That Set the Nation Alight When Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, she did...

The Voice of the People Munshi Premchand (1880–1936) wasn’t just a storyteller—he was the voice of a restless, struggling...

A Quiet Force in Literature Natalie Babbitt, born on July 28, 1932, remains one of the most thoughtful voices...

The Discipline of Endurance Ernest Hemingway, born on July 21, 1899, wasn’t a man who romanticized writing. He saw...

Resistance Begins in One’s Own Tongue History often honors warriors and rulers, but it forgets poets who fought back...