“We women are vassals, and the walls of our prisons are inescapable, for this grotesque disease of preeminence lives in the sperm of all men and is passed along, generation to generation – a deadly, incurable disease whose host is male and victim is female.”

Democracy remains as an ideal for most Asian societies. For some it is a mere façade for their western patrons, while for others it is tantamount to sacrilege. South-east Asia hasn’t exactly been a pacific region. The raison d’être for some countries were century long pogroms and communal tensions.

‘Ghosts’ is another excellent three-act problem play by the writer of ‘A Doll’s House’- Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906). It was written and published in 1881 and staged in 1882. Originally titled- ‘Gengangere’, it means ‘the revenants’, ‘the again-walkers’ or ‘the ones who come back’ in Norwegian language.

Chetan Bhagat is a popular Indian writer. Born and brought up at Delhi, he studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute [...]

Coelho develops a number of characters in this book – producers, actors, designers and supermodels – to give a glimpse of the festival from every possible perspective. He critically analysis and portrays unrestrained ambition…

The story revolves around a new age couple, Michael and Naina and their tryst to fight and fit into life, well, at least Naina’s. The story has it all, college day crushes, first kiss, rebellious heroine denying all comforts…

‘In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.’

Partition that has left many scars in the hearts of several Indians and those tragic days which still haunt the new India, the memories of that tragic period still makes people shiver, are brought alive through a great novel by Khushwant Singh.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, born in 1928 in a small town named Aracataca, Columbia is one of the most revered writer of modern times. He left law school at the University Of Bogota for a career in journalism.

The story begins with business deal, disguised as a marriage, between a Bangladeshi shopkeeper’s daughter and the son of a wealthy Indian Muslim family. Heena Rub, the wayward teenager pretending to be as worldly as Rashid Karim…