“women should forgive themselves . . . [and] take care of themselves with kindness. The world was hard enough, would beat them up enough without them adding to the pain.” After reading this statement from ‘Mrs. Everything’, one might feel that this novel is essentially about women, their achievements and failures, their experiences or about …
There are days when you feel like you have life by the ropes and at that time you feel like taking on difficult things that may increase your potential or may help develop your personality. But when it’s the other way round and life has you by ropes you need something that will cheer you …
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is a book written about female detective Grace Humiston who solved the 1917 missing girl case in New York City. The book starts from the late 1800s and takes us through the journey of Grace Humiston in her career. Written by Brad Ricca, published by St. Martins Griffin, and based in New …
‘My legacy to India? Hopefully, it is 400 million people capable of governing themselves.’ Some men are defined by the age they live in, while some men define the age they live in. Nehru, indeed, is a talisman of the latter category. That Nehru was a fine statesman, is a fact acknowledged even by people …
‘Subtly chilling’ are the words that can describe Taslima Nasrin’s ‘Lajja’. Translated and published across 40 languages, Lajja was originally written in Bangla, the native language of Bangladesh. The book was banned within the few days of its release. Thereafter, Nasrin, a citizen of Bangladesh, had to eventually shift base. Published in 1993, recently the …
The philosophy of existentialism is usually considered as one attached with negative notions of angst, gloom, hopelessness and despair. Camus’ The Outsider and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis present an indifferent world. The protagonists appear to have embodied the very absurdity that surrounds them. But it’s merely one way of looking at the existential philosophy, a view …
