Articles [Stories & Tales]

Sankar had a provisional shop. In this shop one could get almost anything from toothpaste to sugar or rice. He was honest and kept a low margin. Also he treated his customers well. They kept coming back to his shop again and again. Not just that,...

Chinua Achebe is the most influential novelist of Nigeria and one of the most authentic voice of the present African consciousness. His writings truly reflect the dreams and aspirations of his fellow Africans. Achebe's critical and sociological...

"The Robe of Peace" is a fine short story by O.Henry. One of the most popular American short story writers. It deals with how a fashionable gentleman of Newyork becames a monk of one of the strictest monasteries in the Swiss Alps. Johnny...

Emile Dickenson is one of the greatest American poet's. Her poems are short but powerful. She has written about 1800 poems and they were published posthumously. She never married and lined at home with in her family circle. However she had a...

Most of the stories of Somerset Maugham deal with the lives of the Whitemen in the colonies or in the islands of the Far East. In "Mabel" he describes the pursuit of her fiance, by a young woman all over the Far East and marries him after a...

As the pagans were cashing some dues. The faithful were observing the ordinary. Meanwhile the wine being served by the godness that was being served by the godness that wore a gown with a hood.The table covered with some checked cloth and the...

So many dreams on my mind, she is growing is all that i find. All my dreams my pillow bear, not letting me sleep did she care? I role by my side and attempt to hear, she sang to me making it clear. With closed eyes i paint my dreams, only...

Play Cast: 1) Narrator 2) Nasreddin Hodja 3) Nasreddin’s wife 4) Nasreddin’s neighbor –Habibullah 5) Neighbor’s wife Narrator-Nasreddin Hodja lived many years ago. He was a poor man but also a very clever man and he enjoyed playing tricks on...

Birbal and Tansen were put in a tiny cell, dark and musty, in the dungeons of the royal palace. It was a truly terrifying place. Tansen was the first to speak when they had been left alone. ``you know friend, Birbal that I have never questioned the...

15th May 2007I am standing in the middle of a bangalore rain, not sure for how long and for what reason. These are my first rains without her in last four years. May be that’s what I want, may be I don’t, but all I know is one thing, I don’t care...