Who is Franz Kafka? Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, part of the then-Austro-Hungarian Empire and the current capital of the Czech Republic. He lived a short life, studying law and working a desk job, spending most of his free time writing the iconoclastic, surreal, and absurd narratives which he would become known…
Any arrival of an alien, out-of-the-ordinary phenomenon is greeted with a peculiar curiosity gushing out of ogling human eyes, making a quick distinction between Self and Other (anything deemed non-relatable). As a by-product of this curiosity, a certain judgment is passed where every non-normal attribution displayed by the Other somehow rows them further away from…
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” These lines by Jane Austen at the beginning of Pride and Prejudice have been immortalized by their continuing relevance through time. Every single human being I know (mostly women) swoons at the…
Shrilal Shukla’s book, The Selected Satire: Fifty Years of Ignorance, is an English-language collection of 25 short prose pieces written to read like a mirror image of North Indian society. These pieces have been translated into English by Matt Reeck for Penguin Random House, India. Fifty Years of Ignorance, spanning over 427 pages, is a…