Jubilation has still been going on in the realm of Bob Dylan’s fan. The U.S Songster, Dylan, 75, becomes the first musician in the 115-year history of the Nobel to win the prize in literature. He was honoured for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Bo…

Hopkins being a keenly sensuous poet and a Roman Catholic priest at the same time his poetry bears the unmistakable stamp of his poetic sensibility and devotional fervour. The poet and the priest in Hopkins are often in conflict and generate a lot of tensions. There are only a few poems in which the contradi…

1. “Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you…

What is happiness? People have agonized over this question for centuries. Here is a wonderful story extracted from Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist that surely helps you to discover the ultimate meaning of Happiness . A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness from the wisest man…

Mysticism is not really a coherent philosophy of life, but more a temper of mind. A mystic vision is intuitive; a mystic feels the presence of divine reality behind and within the ordinary world of sense and perception. He feels that God and the supreme soul animating all things are identical. He believes that …

Things Fall Apart Review Nobel Laureate, Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart is regarded the alpha of Anglo-African literature . It is the book that brought the story from the ‘Dark Continent’ through the voice of an educated African through which he showed the conflict between African values and the advent of Ch…

Significance of the Title Pride and Prejudice  Jane Austen , with her powerful artistic touch pens down in Pride & Prejudice her concern for the then society drunk with reputation and appearance. First written in 1797 under the title First Impressions , it was later revised and published as Pride and Prejudi…

A.K. Ramanujan’s ‘ A River’ is of his finest poem taken from his magnum opus, The Striders (1965). Here the poet has compared and contrasted the attitudes of the old poets and those of the new poets to human suffering. He has come to the conclusion that both the groups of the poets are indifferent to human s…

Everybody talks about Mother’s love.... Yes, she is an Angel of God. But that can’t be the real reason why we underestimate or undervalue Father’s selfless contribution and sacrifice. Here is a wonderful story....     One Day An 11 Year Old Girl Asked Her Daddy, ”What Are You Going To Get Me For My 15th Bi…