Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ isn’t just a poem about man and god. It was the first ‘scientific epic’

The 10,000-line epic poem, published in 1667, was heavily influenced by Galileo and the scientific revolution of the time.

Ed Simon

 & 

Ed Simon, Aeon

· Apr 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Kaikeyi to Dasharath’: How Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s radical poetry reworked the narrative

A translation by Ahona Panda of the Bengali poet and playwright’s most anthologised poem.

Michael Madhusudan Dutt

 & 

Ahona Panda

· Mar 18, 2018 · 08:30 am

Daphne Du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ at 80: Why we will always return to Manderley

Once, it was dismissed as a mere 'love story’. But the masterpiece has transfixed generations since then.

Laura Varnam, The Conversation

· Mar 04, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Fifty years later, Shrilal Shukla’s ‘Raag Darbari’ is being reborn as modern Indian literature

The world is upside-down, provincialism has replaced cosmopolitanism, and exoticism is dead in today’s fiction. Just like in ‘Raag Darbari’.

Ulka Anjaria

· Mar 03, 2018 · 10:30 am

Turning 200: The ‘Scottish Jane Austen’ was much more satirical about marriage than the real one

Susan Ferrier offered scathing insights into high society. An excerpt from her first novel ‘Marriage’, published in 1818.

Susan Ferrier

· Jan 04, 2018 · 06:30 pm

This Ramanand Sagar short story shows he was not only a film director (and the maker of ‘Ramayana’)

December 29, 2017 marked the 100th birth anniversary of the Lahore-born movie mogul and fiction-writer.

Ramanand Sagar

 & 

Raza Naeem

· Dec 30, 2017 · 10:30 am

Jane Austen’s greatest novel is 200 years old. No, it’s not ‘Pride and Prejudice’

Austen's ‘thought rhythms’ on loss, love and hope resonate even on the 200th anniversary of ‘Persuasion’.

Robert Morrison, The Conversation

· Dec 07, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Shirley Jackson’s novels are eerie literary fiction. She left the best for the last

Fifty-five years after it was published, ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ remains a must-read for those who think horror must be supernatural.

Nicholas Rixon

· Oct 29, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Five pre-modern Hindi classics that poet Anamika wants you to read

How many have you read? No, honestly, how many have you read?

Devapriya Roy

· Apr 01, 2017 · 07:30 am

The 'Arthaśāstra' is a manual of statecraft. It is neither a Hindu nor a moral treatise

A recent translation establishes that Kautilya, whose root text became the basis of the 'Arthaśāstra', and the Brahman Cāṇakya were not the same person.

Ananya Vajpeyi

· Feb 20, 2017 · 08:30 am

Read dead people. (Or, why John Berger matters to you who are on Instagram and Snapchat and Shots)

Also, why John Berger is important in the age of Donald Trump.

Durba Chattaraj

· Jan 14, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Charles Dickens in California in 2016? It's not as far-fetched as you might think

Charles Dickens and Victorian London came alive with enchanting Yuletide magic in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Rituparna Chatterjee

· Dec 24, 2016 · 05:30 am