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Poetry of Hannibal Lecter’s Character Design

Poetry of Hannibal Lecter’s Character Design

Posted on November 25, 2022 by Niraja Deshpande

 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…

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Probing the Indian Heartland for Humour in Shrilal Shukla’s The Selected Satire Fifty Years of Ignorance

Probing the Indian Heartland for Humour in Shrilal Shukla’s The Selected Satire: Fifty Years of Ignorance

Posted on November 15, 2022November 15, 2022 by Ahendrila Goswami

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…

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Sidney Sheldon Grayed My Brain

Sidney Sheldon Grayed My Brain: A Reflective Essay on his Novels

Posted on October 31, 2022March 9, 2024 by Niraja Deshpande

Sidney Sheldon Grayed My Brain:  A Reflective Essay on his Novels – My father was actively involved in raising me and passively involved in inculcating in me a habit of reading while taking a dump. A multi-tasking, ‘starts the day with a to-do list stained by his chai’ kind of a person, he enjoys making…

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How Feminist Retellings are Quickly Shaping our Understanding of Myths

How Feminist Retellings are Quickly Shaping our Understanding of Myths

Posted on September 23, 2022October 3, 2022 by Ahendrila Goswami

How Feminist Retellings are Quickly Shaping our Understanding of Myths: When Adrienne Rich wrote in her popular essay, ‘When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,’ that re-visioning would be an act of survival for women, she was possibly envisioning a future when a massive wave of revisionist storytelling was going to ebb into the world…

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Waiting-for-Godot

Understanding how Form is Content in ‘Waiting for Godot’

Posted on January 19, 2022October 3, 2022 by Anusha Batra

“At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on.” While trying to understand the text, Waiting for Godot, 1953, one often finds themselves in a myriad of possibilities or lenses to look at it through. Although it is all but an attempt…

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