Archives: Reflections

CINDERELLA   I remember seeing those sapphire eyes for the first time; so beautiful. Maybe something so bright isn't meant to last long. It was autumn, I remember; the leaves...

WALL ART   It stands in clear sight with its vibrant colors. The paper birds migrate to a place far away, following their leader on this epic journey. Its colors...

“It’s about time we shed these prudish pre-conditioned layers and talk and deal with sexual explicitness in our books and films with a certain degree of refinement and maturity,” Sreemoyee...

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966): At her death, the Russian poet was considered the greatest woman poet in the history of Russian literature. Jane Austen (1775-1817): Who hasn't read Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Prejudice? The...

Wystan Hugh Auden’s relevance today is based largely on the prescience of his works. For instance, for all the fuss over obscenity in this country, Auden wisely reminds us, in...

I am not competent to comment on Dickens novels, per se. What I can do is share with you some thoughts, about the strong social and political beliefs that coloured...

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...

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...

“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...

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,...