Oscar Wilde was one of the most prominent figures of the late 19th century. A poet and a playwright, Wilde was well known for his knowledge, wit, ideas, and the flamboyant lifestyle he led claiming “you can never be overdressed or…
Thomas Hardy is a name that leaves a lasting impression, among the litterateurs and poets of the modern period and more particularly, the span of the threshold of Modernism. In prose and poetry, Hardy has managed to achieve the status…
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I…
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” ~ Mark Twain The American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist Samuel Langhorn Clemens, born in Missouri, Florida (November 30, 1835). After the death of his father, at…
The Beatles, who would have thought that the four teenage boys from the port city of Liverpool can change the music in mere ten years? It began in 1956 with the dreamer John Lennon, who formed the Skiffle group, The…
Raja Ravi Verma’s Shakuntala depicts the lovelorn Shakuntala, an Indian epical character in the most precise form of emotion that the scene embodies. The painting is the pictorial representation of a section from act one of Abhijnanasakuntalam by Kalidasa. “Sakuntala:…
“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate are necessary to Human existence” The marriage of heaven and hell (1790-93), William Blake He sees contraries as essential to the state of man. Along with…
Dwelling at The Museum of Modern Art, Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ is an extraordinary piece owing to the number of interpretations it can evoke. Due to this reason, it continues to influence and inspire artists around the world.…
Dubbed as the “biggest boy band on the planet” BTS is undeniably at the zenith of their popularity, cementing their position as icons in pop culture. They’ve taken over live TV; they’re constantly shattering records and setting new ones. Their most…
Jane Austen’s novels pose a challenge for criticism. Something in Austen’s texture of her writing – its conversational ease, high spirits, bourgeois- domestic subject matter – confounds the heavy machinery of the academic critical apparatus. She is one of the first…