Darkness of Hunger amid the Glitter of Development
We proudly say that India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. At the same…
October 2026
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The Architecture of Exile: Kenan Orhan’s The Renovation
What happens when the home that an exile has built in a foreign land suddenly opens onto…
A Novel of Love, Life and Human Relationships: A Review of Pearl S. Buck’s Letter from Peking
There are many novels in the world, but only a few create the feeling that we have actually lived with their characters. Letter from Peking by Pearl S. Buck gave me that feeling. I could see the characters, hear their conversations and imagine the places described by the author. Some scenes remain in my mind almost like scenes from a film. Reading it was, in many ways, like watching a beautiful cinema made with words.
The Forgotten Drum
It is an assertion for sticking to values. The cost is heavy, but one day the forgotten one will be rewarded by the people.
Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature – how she discovered new possibilities within language
What distinguishes Anne Carson from many of her contemporaries is the combination of intellectual audacity and emotional restraint. She approaches language, literature and human experience with uncommon boldness – yet her work remains marked by a profound attentiveness to absence, uncertainty and what cannot fully be said.
Book Review: The Elephant, The Tiger and The Cellphone (2007) by Shashi Tharoor
This book is concerned about poverty, illiteracy, regional imbalance, class inequality, caste hierarchy, patriarchy, majoritarianism, cricket, books, movies and paintings. The book tries to capture the paradoxical nature of India in an optimistic way. One of its best features is its unconditional support for religious pluralism.
A short history of the Gaza Strip takes a long view of today’s conflict
To understand the history of a place you have to go back to the start. For the Gaza Strip that start is the naqbah. Nothing that happened subsequently – from the 1950s to the 2020s – can be understood without it.