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Kazuo Ishiguro's Craft of Recreating Memory and Forgetfulness

That Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature this year is significant for various reasons. The declaration of Bob
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Capsule

Our conversations end mid-sentence.
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Romancing the Senses-Hearing

Wikipedia lists the 5 senses thus: taste, sight, touch, smell and hearing, and they are all important, but it's sight that dominates the
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

BATTLE OF THE SENSES?

Battle? What does it mean? One sense against another? No, it's an intellectual tamasha in which six professors of English Literature
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

The Sixth Sense

1. Both Sigmund Freud and Jung studied the unconscious but did not strongly emphasize the 'Sixth Sense' or the Intuitive one,
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

The Sense of Touch

It was a pair of forceps that brought me into the world. The metallic tongs pulled me out of my mother's womb. I don't remember the
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Who reads young adult books?

How the young adult genre evolved to gain universal readership
5 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize

British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" and whose emotional uprooting from his native Japan has left an indelible stamp on his work, wins the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize.
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Snippets

Him: Off to India. What should
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM

The Eternal Song

I celebrate myself—
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM

The Fish of Kalshi

“The whole area will be digital!” says Taimur Reza, the scrawny, bald-and-bearded proprietor of Taimur's betel leaf stand on the
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Metamorphosis

Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock,
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Key holes

We hide our wet lace behind a trellis of plants, our voices honeyed from jaded soap operas.
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM

RADA LOOMS

Bret and I were marching resolutely towards our Holy Grail, waiting for us only a couple of hundred meters or so away, though still out
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Gabo's Solitude

Love for stories, rather fairy tales, begins from childhood. The stories of childhood travel by flights of fancy. As we grow up though,
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM

The Nature of the Linguistic Sign

Signifier: Alas, that I am only what I am not.
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Rice

In the wooded marshland of Manbhoom, the mountain peaks stretched beyond the horizon. Spring was almost gone; palash trees in
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Decision Pending

He was hell-bent on getting out of Purgatory. There was no good reason for him to be in this position but here he was. It really wasn't
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM

The Principle of Resonance

The Architect of designated Life
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM

What If?

He said she was his Achilles' heel long before she had read Homer. "What's an Achilles' heel?" She asked with the innocence of a
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM