Looking beyond the Raj era literary narratives – By Mitali Chakravarty
A re-appraisal of the colonial era literary constructs is very much the need of the hour in all cultures that endured stereotyping under long...
Theater Musings – By Gary Beck
Seven million G.I.s returned from World War II and went to college on the G.I. bill, paid for by grateful Uncle Sam. This led...
Your Hands – By Kunal Mehra
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..story about my mother’s hands and all they’ve borne witness to, and how our hands can store memories and be the reservoir of our...
On Dubbing – Jorge Luis Borges
Art’s possibilities for combination are not infinite, but they tend to be appalling. The Greeks begot the chimera, monster with the head of a...
What is Poetry? – By Colin Ian Jeffery
I believe poetry is the highest of mankind’s literary achievements, timeless, appealing down the ages, revealing imagery of the poet’s struggles and experiences, stresses...
The Formula for Fantasy – By Kenny Chumbley
All fairy tales are fantasy, but not all fantasies are fairy tales. Fairy tales require fairy folk (elves, gnomes, etc.). The Three Little Pigs...
‘Landscape Painted with Tea’ as an Ecological Novel – By Jasmina Mihajlovic
"Suddenly I freeze. I sense, I clearly sense, somebody watching me. Somebody's eyes are fixed upon me. And then I realize that staring out...
J. M. Barrie and The Pan
By Kenny Chumbley
“You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all...
The Personality of Phantasy – By Kenny Chumbley
My qualifications for writing about fantasy literature/fairy tales are slight. As a child, I wore out the Whitman...
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of Fantasy
By Kenny Chumbley
In October 1936, a manuscript for a children’s book arrived at the office of the London publisher Allen & Unwin. Stanley Unwin,...
