Anton Chekhov was a prolific writer and his short stories and plays had great insight into the inner lives of ordinary people. He was instrumental in establishing modern theatre along...
The Bet
By Anton Chekhov It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party...
Letters from Chekhov
In letters Chekhov wrote to his writing contemporaries, as well as his family, Chekhov often discussed his work and ideas about story craft. His words of wisdom are as relevant...
CHEKOV – AN OVERVIEW
“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other” Physician, Fiction Writer and Playwright most...
On Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was and is a turbulence, an anomaly among the major American writers of his period, an anomaly to this day. He both amazed and antagonized his contemporaries,...
The Lives of Others – A strong contender for the Booker?
Amitav Ghosh has called it, “Searing, savage and deeply moving.” Anita Desai felt it was “Ferocious, unsparing and brutally honest.” Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others which is longlisted for...
Excerpts from Broomrider’s book of the dead
Excerpts from Broomrider’s book of the dead by Mukta Sambrani A book in no genre based on found fragments from the notebooks of Anna Albuquar a.k.a. Anna Plum The First...
The Triumph of Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer will always remain a formidable presence in the world of empowering literature. Her sensitive yet overwhelmingly powerful novels and short stories not only dealt with the many layered...
Two Offerings
Gyaan Adab hosted an evening of art and poetry of two very talented women Christine Herzer and Dipalle Parmar. Though the two women worked with the same mediums their work...
