Memories of Saltwater on Skin I learned to float when I was three, When my mother carried me to the middle of the beach. She let go,...

Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, was born on May 7th, 1861. He was born into the...

Published in 1990, Tim O’Brien’s collection of connected short stories The Things They Carried received great critical acclaim both as a...

As my gaze wanders from the news of burning forests to the books on my shelves, I feel a twinge in my heart, and I begin to wonder how...

Even though I was born into the disability community, I knew nothing about the words “disability rights” until I turned 13. Wanting to...

I recently read the short story “The Garden Party” written in 1922 by Katherine Mansfield alongside How to Read Literature like a...

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Over centuries of human civilisation, there have been many revolutions, protests and overthrowing of oppressive regimes around the world....

There’s a number of How-To articles of dealing with these “dreaded” editors, and this might just come close to it. While I see why...

As more and more people are aware of social issues and injustice in society, there has been a rise of activism and advocacy, especially...

So, I write poetry and prose in English, which isn’t my mother tongue and people often ask me “Why the hell would you choose to write in...

Dr. Seuss, or Theodore Seuss Geisel, has been considered a reading icon all over the world for decades. However, it was recently...

Over the last decade, the writing industry has started embracing unique identities and “diversity” has now become the hottest trend among...

I. we’ve spent a lot of time together, these days. surely, during lockdown one, two and three and a half our relationship has altered....

Every year, writers of all kinds, from the aspiring wannabe to the mega-popular bestseller, attempt the grueling challenge of the...

For the past 3 months now, I have been suffering from reader’s block. Books were my safe haven after the lockdown. I found reading the...

Ismat Chughtai, a raging communist way ahead of her time, penned down Lihaaf, originally in Urdu, in the year 1942, while she was in...