Monthly Archives: September 2019
Most fictional literature is to some extent based upon real-life events and nonfictional works often originate from fictional assumptions. Even mythology has a factual basis while great works of science were later on proven fictional! Margaret Mitchell once admitted that her character Rhett Butler (from Gone with the Wind) was based on a person she had seen in her life. The villains in Shakespearian plays were usually “lean, mean and thin”! Shakespeare must have seen quite a few “Cassiuses” in…..
“Shyam, old people and old traditions die hard!” Aba said with a long sigh. “But young people need not trample them under their boot just because they were not much use. We Hindus offer flowers to God; do you throw them into the sewer when they wither? We put them into the flower beds to let them into a compost.” In this novel, Shyam does not contest Aba’s argument out of deference but it leaves him thinking, “Where do the…..