WRITINGS
Thoughts, Stories and Other Wanderings
Books I have read, stories I have imagined, poems I have written, and reflections on the many questions that make life worth exploring.
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Books, Reading and Literary Reflections
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Synopsis of a Russian short story
Read more →: Synopsis of a Russian short storyLong ago I read a Russian short story. The protagonist, whose wife has recently passed away, discovers a small note book which she had kept as a record of her personal feelings and observation. He reads through the diary entries and that sets him thinking. He realizes how little he knew about his wife. He…
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How and why should one read “One Hundred years of solitude”?
Read more →: How and why should one read “One Hundred years of solitude”?Gabriel Marquez was an unknown writer for me in the year 1991. One of my friends casually mentioned that I should read this book and gave me One Hundred years of Solitude. I remember having read it in less than 72 hours and when my friend asked me about it, I had no words to…
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What distinguishes Russian literature from other literature?
Read more →: What distinguishes Russian literature from other literature?Somewhere deep inside all the Russian writers must have been philosophers and thinkers. There is no other Literature which looks so much at the society with such concern, angst and emotion. Let there be no doubt that it was not only intensely engaging with the questions of the outward reality, but also very inward looking.…
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Why is “Paradise lost” a religious epic poem?
Read more →: Why is “Paradise lost” a religious epic poem?The epic nature of Paradise Lost is justified by the exactitude with which it adheres to the epic conventions. In brief the epic conventions are “ Statement of the theme of the epic in the first few lines, Starting in medias res ( in the middle of things), Invocation of the muse, Grand style, and…
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How I Developed My Interest in Literature
Read more →: How I Developed My Interest in LiteratureMy interest in literature began with adventure stories read aloud in school and grew through teachers who could bring a text to life. From those early books came a lifelong engagement with writers, stories and the endless possibilities of reading.
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How I Developed My Interest in Literature
Read more →: How I Developed My Interest in LiteratureFrom school adventure stories and abridged classics to Dickens, Hardy, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Krishna Mohan traces the books and teachers that turned reading into a lifelong pursuit.
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Which are some of the greatest dialogues in english literature?
Read more →: Which are some of the greatest dialogues in english literature?“O God! that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive thy saints? How long O Lord how long?” Saint Joan by GB Shaw “If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart absent thee from felicity awhile and in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain to tell my story”…
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What is the relationship between literature and place?
Read more →: What is the relationship between literature and place?Imagine a place called Malgudi and whatever feature you want to give to this happy town, has already been done by the renowned writer RK Narayan. It is said that people search the map of India to find this imaginary place which is so fondly and quaintly visualized by the novelist in most of his…
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Why is drama important in literature?
Read more →: Why is drama important in literature?All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. Shakespeare has long ago resolved this question about the relation between life and drama. Drama has laid the foundation for the evolution of other genres of Literature like the novel or the short story. In the days before the invention of printing,…
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What is the difference between literature and non-literature in literary works?
Read more →: What is the difference between literature and non-literature in literary works?Is there a distinction that one can make with certainty? Literature is generally what has stood the test of time and can appeal to a number of people because of its inherent greatness, that transcends region, language, culture or genre. The great epic poems of the world, the great tragedies of Shakespeare, the novels of…
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The Rainbow By DH Lawrence
Read more →: The Rainbow By DH LawrenceThe Rainbow is a wonderful novel. The novel portrays the life of three generations of Brangwens. Tom Brangwen, the farmer of Cossethay, who marries Lydia Lensky; the Polish widow, Anna Brangwen, the daughter of Lydia Lensky, who marries Will Brangwen and Ursula Brangwen, the first child of Anna and Will Brangwen. The novel is wondrous…
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చివరకు మిగిలేది
Read more →: చివరకు మిగిలేదిబుచ్చిబాబు ‘చివరకు మిగిలేది’లో దయానిధి వ్యక్తిత్వం, ప్రేమ, అన్వేషణ, వైరుధ్యం, శూన్యం మరియు సత్యాన్వేషణ గురించి నా ఆత్మీయ సాహిత్య పరిశీలన.
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నేను చదివిన పుస్తకాలు — Part 2
Read more →: నేను చదివిన పుస్తకాలు — Part 2More books, more conversations, and the many ways they stay with us.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Read more →: The Count of Monte CristoAfter finally reading the unabridged novel, I reflect on Dumas’s immense canvas of adventure, suffering, revenge and the sheer exhilaration of storytelling.
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మనసు లోని మాట
Read more →: మనసు లోని మాటదూరం, ఊరు, బాల్యం, స్నేహం, ఇంటి జ్ఞాపకాలు — మనసులో మిగిలే తియ్యని బాధను పలికించే జ్ఞాపకాల కవిత.
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Revisiting
Read more →: RevisitingA look back, not to return, but to understand — and to move forward more gently.