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Category: Literature

Semaphores?

Human beings first learnt to write approximately 10,000 years ago… Nowadays, most of the world’s languages use transliteration, which is popularly known as alphabets. Almost everything can be written with […]

The Sequel…

A somewhat unprecedented situation has arisen in the US recently over the publication of a book. A publisher planned to inaugurate noted Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s latest novel ‘The Testaments’ […]

On Writing…

Chloe Anthony Wofford ‘Toni‘ Morrison (February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019) – the Nobel Laureate American Novelist, Essayist, Editor, Teacher, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, gave invaluable pieces […]

The Booker & A Book!

Jokha Alharthi – the Omani author and a Professor of Arabic literature – has recently won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel, Celestial Bodies! With this, she became the […]

On Literature, Literally!

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – the world-famous Kenyan writer, playwright and academic – has become the voice of those African people who are not able to tell their own stories in their […]