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Category: Literature

Lives: Lies & Truth!

Biographies usually become popular, if they are unauthorised! In other words, when a person does not have a control while depicting activities and events of her/his life, many of the […]

Expanding The Horizon

A book, written in Portuguese, was in the limelight in 1970. The title of the English translation of the work was ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’, authored by Brazilian Educator and […]

Travels & Travails In Time…

The Third RippleAn aircraft, carrying passengers, had mysteriously disappeared after taking off from Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in eastern Indian city of Kolkata in 1984… Well, an aircraft […]

Neo-Bibliothèque!

Trams in the Eastern Indian city of Kolkata form the only operating tram network in the country and the oldest operating electric tram in Asia, running since 1902. The Calcutta […]

Life, Love & Death!

In a letter to one of his friends, he had mentioned that his fiancée's name on the envelope used to upset him. He did not even open the last letter received from his lover before leaving this world. His letters to his sweetheart were published 57 years after his demise. The Global Community is all set to mark his 225th Birth Anniversary in October 2020!

A Matter Of Choice!

The Bombay High Court of India has ruled that Prostitution is not a Crime! Decades ago, India had enacted the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (PITA) in order to prevent […]

Another Travelogue

“The young lady is reciting her works aloud… one after another… the audience are listening to her in rapt attention… The candle, there, is lit as many times as it […]

On A Pilgrimage, 90 Years Ago

He had described, in his letters written from Moscow, his visit to the erstwhile Soviet Union as a ‘Pilgrimage’… Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 – August 7, 1941) – the […]