In fiction, the virtually impossible can happen; call it co-incidence, magic, or sheer chance. The important thing is that fiction breeds these less likely occurrences, which feed the curious reader’s mind. It is…

Literary Fiction and Space:  London in Dickens and Malkani The human experience captured in a literary novel is made up of time and space because we are always in a particular phase of…

If Shakespeare wrote plays and poems that became the bases of literary fiction, he also some times wrote plays with a purpose. The best example of such plays is the group of plays…

Shakespeare is now generally acknowledged as a writer with several facets. By all standards he seems to be a leader among writers. Harold Bloom has considered him to be at the centre of…

I’ve written much on the nature of literary writing in my blog posts thus far but from now on for a few turns I will discuss two major issues: (a) What is Literary…

Writing comes when sources of fulfillment are blocked No one quite contented and happy would write anything to please people, particularly something about injustice, misfortune or suffering. The contented person would write only…

It is a fair world, I thought, as I grew up like a creeper. But I learned something different after some time. Fair is a subjective word. The boundary between fair and foul…