Yashvi Jain’s The Magic Stones: The Tower of Destruction is an ambitious second instalment in a fantasy-adventure series that seeks to combine supernatural powers, friendship, suspense and moral questions within…
Contemporary Russian literature cannot be understood adequately either as a simple continuation of the nineteenth-century Russian canon or as a literary culture born abruptly with the collapse of the Soviet…
Few literary traditions have understood fear with the subtlety and psychological sophistication of Japan. Whereas Western horror, dominantly English literature, frequently derives its power from violence, monstrosity, or supernatural confrontation,…
For decades, Hindi literature has enjoyed immense richness in poetry, social realism, historical fiction, philosophical writing, and literary novels. Yet one area that has remained surprisingly underexplored is large-scale fantasy…
To understand how India has been interpreted, misunderstood, and gradually rearticulated in global intellectual history, one must inevitably arrive at Sri Aurobindo. His significance does not lie merely in the…
The discourse on literary criticism in contemporary times frequently oscillates between academic rigidity and readerly freedom. In this fluctuating intellectual landscape, the reflections of Dr Alok Mishra offer a distinctive…
Mahatma Among the Revolutionaries: Disturbed India of the 1920s, a new book by Vivek Verma, has left me surprised, shocked and also very intrigued. Why could not we see history…
Reading a short story, for me, has always felt like entering a carefully prepared moment of human intensity. Unlike a novel, which invites a long-term relationship, the short story offers…
Prof. Bharat M. Mody’s DHARMA KARYA: An Ideological Book represents one of the most ambitious and provocative intellectual undertakings in recent Indian thought. It is not written as a mere…
Qazi Ashraf’s From Big Bang to Baghdad: A Brief Story of the Origin and Evolution of Religion is a remarkable contribution to contemporary non-fiction, particularly within the Indian context, where…