Since the publication of The Alchemist, Coelho has generally written at least one novel every two years. Four of them – The Pilgrimage, Hippie, The Valkyries, and Aleph – are autobiographical, while the majority of the rest are broadly fictional.…
Since the publication of The Alchemist, Coelho has generally written at least one novel every two years. Four of them – The Pilgrimage, Hippie, The Valkyries, and Aleph – are autobiographical, while the majority of the rest are broadly fictional.…
21 अगस्त 1915 को उत्तर प्रदेश के बदायूं में जन्मी इस्मत चुगताई उर्दू साहित्य की सर्वाधिक विवादास्पद और सर्वप्रमुख लेखिका थी। उन्हें ‘इस्मत आपा’ के नाम से भी जाना जाता है। उन्होंने आज से लगभग 70 साल पहले पुरुष प्रधान…
‘Who is this Bharat Mata, whose victory you wish?’ asked Jawaharlal Nehru—a leading light of the Indian freedom movement who would become the country’s first prime minister—at a public gathering in 1936. And then he explained: the mountains and rivers,…
हमारे गाँव में एक पंडितजी थे। अपने को महाविद्वान् मानते थे। विद्या उनके मुँह से फचाफच निकला करती थी। शास्त्रार्थ में वे बड़े-बड़े दिग्गजों को हरा देते थे। विद्या के जोर से नहीं, फचफचाहट के आघात से। प्रतिपक्षी मुँह पोछता…
सआदत हसन मंटो (11 मई 1912 – 18 जनवरी 1955) उर्दू के एक बेहतरीन लेखक थे, जो अपनी तहलका मचा देने वाली लघु कथाओं, बू, खोल दो, ठंडा गोश्त और चर्चित टोबा टेकसिंह के लिए प्रसिद्ध हुए। कहानीकार होने के…
Gitanjali, originally written in Bengali, and then later translated into English by Gurudev himself, is one of the seminal works in Bengali literature by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. Gitanjali meaning “Song Offering” is a collection of 156 poems (103 in the…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, The $30000 Bequest: CHAPTER I Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, The £1000000 Bank Note: When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker’s clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock…
Here we reproduce America’s most loved literary figure, Mark Twain‘s celebrated short story, Was it Heaven? Or Hell? : “You told a LIE?” “You confess it – you actually confess it – you told a lie!” The family consisted…