Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, What Stumped the Bluejays: Animals talk to each other, of course. There can be no question about that; but I suppose there are very few people who…
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Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, Luck: [Note – This is not a fancy sketch. I got it from a clergyman who was an instructor at Woolwich forty years ago, and who vouched…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, The Five Boons Of Life: CHAPTER I In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket, and said: “Here are gifts. Take one,…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, General Washington’s Negro Body-Servant: The stirring part of this celebrated colored man’s life properly began with his death — that is to say, the notable features of…
A day after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Dyer, showing no remorse at all, went around Amritsar threatening people of dire consequences should they fail to follow his instructions. The odds were being stacked against the people of Amritsar. They had…
Famous for his much-loved philosophical work, The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man Kahlil (sometimes referred to…
राहुल सांकृत्यायन जिन्हें ‘महापंडित’ की उपाधि दी जाती है हिन्दी के एक प्रमुख साहित्यकार थे। वे एक प्रतिष्ठित बहुभाषाविद् थे और बीसवीं सदी के पूर्वार्ध में उन्होंने यात्रा वृतांत/यात्रा साहित्य तथा विश्व-दर्शन के क्षेत्र में साहित्यिक योगदान किए। वह हिंदी…
गंभीर, भावपूर्ण एवं पूर्णतया निजी कहानियों के लिए जाने-जाने वाले निर्मल वर्मा आधुनिक हिंदी कहानी के एक प्रतिष्ठित नाम हैं। उनके अभूतपूर्व योगदान के लिए निर्मल वर्मा को साहित्य के शीर्ष सम्मान ज्ञानपीठ से 1999 में नवाज़ा गया। 3 अप्रैल…
Originally written by Ranjit Desai in Marathi titled ‘Shriman Yogi‘, “Shivaji: The Great Maratha” brings out larger than life image of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to the fore. With his English version, Vikrant Pande has done a great service to the…
धारावाहिक रूप में प्रकाशित उपन्यास आपका बंटी से लोकप्रियता प्राप्त करने वाली हिन्दी की सुप्रसिद्ध कहानीकार मन्नू भंडारी को लेखन का संस्कार विरासत में मिला। उनके पिता सुखसम्पत राय भी जाने माने लेखक थे। भानपुरा, मध्य प्रदेश में 3 अप्रैल,…
