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  • LITERATUREAPR 2024

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    A reading of Márquez’s great fictional universe, where family history, memory, solitude and the magical become inseparable from ordinary life.

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  • LITERATUREAPR 2024

    Hard Times by Charles Dickens

    A novel by Charles Dickens espouses most of my predilections about the Novel; be it the plot, the characterization, an underlying philosophy, a love of humanity, the triumph of good over evil, the victory of the underdog, the rewarding of the morally strong and the general feeling of happiness and well being. So no wonder…

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  • LITERATUREOCT 2023

    The short stories of Edgar Allan Poe

    In the days of the Wild West, when writers were busy writing about questions like, freedom, love, morality, Edgar Allan Poe was delving into the more mysterious aspects of life which touched upon the eerie, the grotesque, the occult and the arcane. The stories of Poe have an aura of the mysterious and Gothic about…

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  • LITERATUREOCT 2023

    Lady Audley’s Secret

    Mary Braddon’s novel was published in the year 1862. The blurb calls it a disturbing exploration of the dark side of respectable Victorian society. Helen Maldon, Lucy Graham and then Lady Audley is the principal character of the novel. As her transformation from one figure to another takes place she works towards erasing her life…

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  • LITERATURESEP 2023

    Nana by Emile Zola

    What intrigued me about the novel was the ending. I could not understand why the novelist had to devote more than 6 pages for the preparations of war going on in France while Nana lies in the hospital bed. Nana leads a life of pleasure and un forbidden freedom. She is the embodiment of sensuality.…

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  • LITERATURESEP 2023

    Things Fall Apart

    A return to Achebe’s landmark novel and the tragedy of an individual, a culture and a social order confronted by disruptive historical change.

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  • LITERATUREJULY 2023

    Gabriel García Márquez and Love in Fiction

    A reflection on love in García Márquez’s fiction and the many forms desire, memory, patience and human attachment can take.

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  • LITERATUREJULY 2023

    Roots By Alex Haley

    The story of seven generations, whose most ancient ancestor is Kunta Kinte, a Gambian. He is abducted forcibly from his African village and enslaved. The author Alex Haley goes back, back to his roots, to his great great great grand father’s African village putting together all his painstaking research to produce this moving book. In…

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  • LITERATUREJULY 2023

    వనవాసి — Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

    భిభూతి భూషన్ బందోపాధ్యాయ వనవాసి ఒక ప్రకృతి ఆరాధకుని జీవితం గురించిన ఈ నవలలో వర్ణన, సౌందర్య పిపాస, ప్రకృతి ఆరాధన అత్యంత రమణీయంగా ఉన్నది. బీహార్లోని కుసినది, లవటాలియా అడవుల్లో కచేరి పనులు చక్కబెట్టడానికి వచ్చిన రచయిత నిర్జన, నిశీధీ, సౌందర్యంతో శోభిల్లుతున్న ఆ వనాలలో లీనమైపోతాడు. ఆ అరణ్యవాసుల జీవన సౌoదర్యం, బ్రతుకు పోరాటాలతో మమేకమవుతాడు. భూమికీ, పర్యావరణానికీ, మానవ అభివృద్దికి, పురోగతికి వైరుధ్యం ఉన్నది. బీహార్ ప్రాంతం లోని జమీందారుల ఎస్టేట్ లను…

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  • LITERATUREJUNE 2023

    How I Came to Admire Hamlet

    A personal account of coming to admire Hamlet—not only as a great tragedy, but as a work whose language, thought and dramatic power remain alive.

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  • LITERATUREMAY 2023

    Little Dorrit

    Little Dorrit has been called a masterpiece among masterpieces by G.B.Shaw. Like many of Dickens’ novels this too is a London novel; the metropolis in which Dickens locates his characters. The urbane, aristocratic, well –to-do citizens of this city in contrast to the struggling impoverished folk from the poorer sections gives an ambience and canvas…

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  • LITERATUREAPR 2023

    Leonardo da Vinci — The Resurrection of the Gods

    Leonardo Da Vinci – The Resurrection of the Gods is an astounding work. Like Dostoyevsky, here is the author setting the dialectic of the God and the Devil against one another. Whether sinful pride in your adoration of God is a mark of the devil itself? Are knowledge and truth, the devotion of the scientist…

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