NEW DELHI: She writes poetic prose, employs redolent metaphors and evokes utmost admiration for her novelistic virtues. Arundhati Roy is anything but a boring author. The 1997 Booker Prize-winner, who is equally at ease writing scathing essays, says she is a โdisciplined writerโ whose heart lies in fiction as it is a โconnective tissueโ between…
Tonight, I wish I sing Songs, euphonious, With a host of winking stars, In the dark beautiful moonless sky! Tonight, I wish I wing Over the seas, hills And plains like free birdsโ Praising Him, our Lord, so high! Tonight, I wish I transform Into swallows, numberlessโ So that ammunition laden monsters, I invade and…
Trends have changed, philosophies of existence and their manifestations too have made a brutal and radical shift towards the โdistortions of something-ness.โ The world once had experienced Socrates, walking down from wild forest, with a swing of gestures on his face, reflecting a deep search with an endless pulse of confusions. The collective social psychology…
An avid reader, reading 13 to 15 hours on average a day, Shaykh Abdul Aziz ibn Marzouq at-Tarefe, was born on 7th of September in 1976 in Kuwait and is a Saudi Arabian Islamic cleric. Shaykh has widely memorized Islamic texts from the age of 13 along with hundreds of thousands of lines of poetry,…
Comrade, gear up, the dawn is singing- cheer Comrade, hope in attire is dancing- wear Fissured horizon lures none save me Comrade, at me, what silence is winking- bear Pierce, nay, these earlobes graceful like this Comrade, what new method is ringing- hear Off shelves, let my book all be- no worries Comrade, the pulse…
No names, no claims-a wandering carefree as birds: One day (some day!) we will be free as birds! At dusk, to peck at what remains of their day All prodigals return to some tree as birds. From the meadows of reminiscences a drove Of regret rises: as poetry! as birds! Now that they have renamed…
If there was ever any doubt to the fact of Haruki Murakamiโs skill at nuanced storytelling, Killing Commendatore eliminates them all with its artistic telling. The latest novel from the Japanese author is a gripping tale of art and obsession. With nearly 700 pages to its name, Killing Commendatore surprises readers with prose that flows…
Kashmir is a state trapped in between three nuclear powers and its conflict is considered to be one of the most perplexed issues in the world with no immediate possible solution acceptable to the warring parties. While reading Moulana Maududiโs Masโalai Kashmir aur us ka Hal (Kashmir Issue and its Solution), a reader can quite easily…