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Wednesday, 23 December 2015

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An Old Woman

An Old Woman by Arun Kolatkar depicts a very commonplace scene from and the street. But in the poet’s hands it becomes a question w...
An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls by J B Priestly is an interesting play which thrills the reader in several different ways. Written in 1912, th...
Anna in The Siege

The Siege is a historical novel based on real events. Helen Dunmore makes it very realistic with her peculiar way of non-linear na...
Why can I write?

True, this is a correct sentence. But something at the back of our mind tells us that something is not right. The question looks ri...
hWat is dyslexia?

The English language has a lot of problems inherent in it and that is what makes it so cute. However, it causes a lot of problems for those...
Writing Radio Plays

Though we don’t realize it thousands of good radio plays are produced around the world every year and some media producers like the BBC ...
A Christmas Story
Marina Petrovna in The Siege

Marina Petrovna in The Siege Marina Petrovna is an important character in the Siege. She is an artiste and finds it hard to put up ...
The Pursuit of Happyness

19 men in pursuit of sadness A movie is a kind of shadow play and there is a lot hidden in the shadows. For example, the 19 men who had...
Transferred Epithet

The beauty of language is that it allows you to break rules. You are not sentenced for doing so. Then there are figures of speech. Quite i...