— Anonymous Societal beauty standards is a topic that is still very much alive to this day. In “Odour”, Saadat Hasan Manto deconstructs what we think are the laws of attraction. I believe this makes the story a great work. The story details an event in which the character, Randhir, sleeps with a girl from […]
South Asian
Poem in response to the classical Sanskrit lyric…
— Afshara Choudhury Poem — A response to the classical Sanskrit lyric Life is unpredictable So is the destiny of mine As my life unfold I rethink the past. Once I read the Sanskrit lyric For a moment he’s a child It hit me to the Core I understood the shift From beginning […]
In my opinion, good literature is timeless and placeless…
— Anonymous In my opinion, good literature is timeless and placeless. It does not matter when it was written and created. On account of being timeless and placeless, I am trying to imply that the themes of the work and therefore the messages communicated by the story are what matter more, irrelevant of what time […]
I found this text very interesting because …
— Eunice Ojedele I found this text very interesting because of the turn it took. When I started reading the text, I tried to predict the way it will end in my head, thinking that maybe due to the quarrels that both wives constantly had, that they will end up killing themselves or something of […]
Bhartrhari’s poems are …
— Anonymous Bhartrhari’s poems are a reflection of ethical and moral issues that arise in worldly affairs. His poem, “I haven’t Been in the cloud”, shows us a son’s moral debt that he owes his mother as an Indian son. In Indian culture, the families are very close to one another; multiple generations would all […]
