Lo, the common cleaves unto the common, and the average calleth unto its own kind. But whosoever desireth the extraordinary must first become extraordinary. Be ye not lukewarm nor dim, but blaze forth as a fire unquenchable. Let thy joy be fierce, thy hope inexhaustible. Pour out

September 1st, is the day when universities across much of the world prepare to welcome students back, and exactly after a month (October 1st) the classes would practically begin. It feels modern - freshers' weeks, course registrations, lecture halls filling up again - yet the

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Lullabies are more than music - they are memory. They are not simply a mother’s song to soothe her child to sleep - they are gentle scripts of culture, carrying into the cradle the dreams, duties, and anxieties of the household. What a society imagined of its sons and daughters,.

J.R.R Tolkien’s world of LOTR is not just mountains, hobbits, and rings; it is stitched from something older, deep in the collective human imagination. That is why readers feel strangely at home in Middle-earth, as though they’ve dreamt it before. To walk with Frodo, Gandalf, and

Consider this: You are planning to do your Ph.D. from an Indian University. One may argue, why do you need to study so much? .This write up is not for such, . Aapko dil se Vannakam!. Rest of you, follow. So, you planned a Ph.D. After considerable brainstorming with yourself,.

When Adam ate the apple, he chose life over immortality. Angels are immortal; humans are not. But Adam understood, it too late, that life, the greatest miracle of all, carries within it a paradox. It ends, while immortality does not. In choosing life, he chose the two greatest.

Mahasweta Devi's Breast Stories (Trans. G Spivak).*[Disclaimer: Not for kids (regardless of age)]. Breast Stories,is one of the most unsparing critiques of gendered violence and exploitation in modern Indian literature.Consisting of three novellas - Draupadi, Breast-Giver, and

Our fantasies often grow out of the landscapes around us. J.K. Rowling didn't come of age in London, but in Tutshill, a quiet village on the English-Welsh border. Her childhood home-a Gothic Revival cottage with vaulted ceilings, trapdoors, and even a cupboard under the

What did George Orwell mean when he said, "If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.". He was hinting at what may be called "The Sovereignty of the Sentence.". If people cannot write well, they.