Reading Time: 4 minutes Dynasties, Empires, and Kingdoms – Part 1 ‘The Sun Never Set on the British Empire.’ For an empire that dominated European politics for over a thousand years, and world politics for almost two centuries, it is quite important from a historic point of view to know about it. The British Empire, founded by the Monarchy …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes I started reading novels quite late in my life when I was in Class 11. Many of my friends from school had already read the Rowlings and Ruskins by that time. However, since I began, the reading bug has never left me for much time. From Mario Puzo to Robert Goddard, George Orwell to Aravind …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Since the turn of the 20th century, the world has been at a war of ideologies. Be it the battlegrounds of Europe and Asia, or the Cold War, the social movements, political elections, and of late, university election – the Right vs the Centre vs the Left has been one of the longest fought battles, …
Reading Time: 7 minutes The power of the pen or the written word is signified in every culture from across the globe. The men and women with a pen have chronicled the history of the world as we know it today. Out of billions of human beings to brace the earth, very few have impacted it more than writers. …
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Since the beginning of the 20th century, the world has been under a state of turmoil in some way or the other. Revolutions, genocides, wars, everything the world has witnessed in the past 120 years is stranger than the most mind-blowing works of fiction. And today, the world is witnessing another great moment when the …
Reading Time: 5 minutes Reading a novel is quite a private affair. A good story sucks you in, cuts you from the world. Until you gulp down the very last word, you’re locked in completely. However, reading a novel is not just about thousands of words and spectacular plots. It’s much more than that, it is an experience. One, …
Reading Time: 5 minutes Following your passion in an insanely competitive country like India is almost a philosophical dream that not many are able, or even willing to pursue. And out of all such passions, the rarest of the rare is writing. Don’t get me wrong – everyone loves the idea of having the name on the front cover …
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Reading Time: 13 minutes Introduction to Shudraka’s Mrichchakatika Sudraka’s Mrichchakatika is among the earliest known plays of Sanskrit Literature. It is widely celebrated as one of the first plays to skip the narration from the perspective of the royals or nobles and depict the life of a common village populace. The underlying story of this iconic play is set …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the last decade, I have had the opportunity to read some of the most exquisite pieces of literature from all over the world. From Russian classics like The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky to Indian gems like The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, I consider myself privileged to have been able to get my hands …
Reading Time: 5 minutes I took a liking to read novels only when I was in college, which frankly is quite late. It is not that I was away from books, as our school had a big library with lots of them. But to be honest, I was always intimidated by the sheer size of the books. Generally, the …
Reading Time: 7 minutes Introduction The evolution of the novel happened over a period of centuries before it took the form we witness today. There have been several landmark contributions to the development of storytelling all over the world. One book, however, which remains ground-breaking in various aspects is Pamela. Written by Samuel Richardson, Pamela is widely regarded as …
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stories have been part of cultures around the world for thousands of years. They helped shape our societies for centuries and continue to do so even today. However, in modern times, stories, in the form of novels, have become one of the major sources of entertainment. They no longer are limited to the privileged class, …
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are two kinds of people in this world. One, who read books, and the others, who want to read books. Inherently, every human being loves a good story, and therefore, reading novels is quite a fulfilling activity. However, for those who are just beginning to read or thinking to begin, more often than not, …
Reading Time: 4 minutes Since the beginning of the millennium, there hasn’t been an author in India as influential and polarizing as Chetan Bhagat. He has achieved almost everything that aspiring India dreams of a famed academic double – IIT + IIM, a million-dollar investment banking job with likes of Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, and multiple best-selling titles …
Reading Time: 9 minutes Introduction to Romanticism of William Wordsworth History has seldom witnessed that a person who instigated a genre of any art form, and the same person went on to become the epitome of it. Take movies, for example. The first-ever movie was directed by a Frenchman named Louis Le Prince. However, instead of Prince, it is …
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