Nineteenth century India witnessed tremendous contributions of several Indian luminaries in the fields of science, arts, literature, business, philosophy, and many others. There was a wealth of knowledge.
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Although the sweet dream was cherished for a long time, the master storyteller, popularly known as “the Canadian Chekov,” was never fully convinced that one day she would become the first from her country to bag the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature.
Rabindranath Tagore’s contributions to the eclectic realm of art, literature, and culture have served as inspiration not only to Bengalis but to the entire nation and to the world at large as well.
Sahitya (literature) has kept the traditions alive, which was more evident during the Covid time.
Here's a list of books that address the various emotions children struggle with, and can be companions to them during the hard times.
With an emphasis on the idea of dharma as a framework for Gandhism, both in South Africa and India, this is the story of the man as much as the Mahatma.
With four debut novels and two translations making it to the longlist, the socio-political divide across history -- present, and future -- are prominent in all the novels.
What makes pandemics similar across geographic locations and time is not the presence of germs and viruses but that the human response follows the same pattern. All three literary works inform us that the initial human response to the outbreak is typically one of denial. Furthermore, our response to a pandemic tends to be slow and the authorities often provide false numbers about the infected cases and deaths
Some of the names attracting the buzz are, poet Anne Carson and novelist Margaret Atwood, as well as Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Polish writer and activist Olga Tokarczuk, French Guadeloupean Maryse Conde, South Korean writer Han Kang.
