Author name: Rai

There are books you finish and immediately want to press into someone else’s hands. Not because you want to discuss […]

Every year, thousands of students across India begin their English Honours journey with the same questions spinning in their heads.

Let’s talk about the question. You know the one. You’ve heard it at family dinners, at weddings, from relatives you

Let me tell you about a scene that plays out in every English Honours classroom in India, every single year.

Picture this. Your first English Honours seminar. The professor is speaking about The Waste Land. They mention “intertextuality,” “ellipsis,” “fragmented subjectivity,”

So you got into English Honours. Maybe you chose it on purpose — because you love literature, because you’ve been

There is a particular kind of grief that only readers know. Not the grief of losing someone real — though