Book Review of ‘Zorba the Greek’, byNikos Kazantzakis Pages: 312 Listening Hours on Audible: 12 hrs 35 mins Review by Anil Saxena Life—where from, wherefore? Whereto? Why? Suffering, reason, aesthetics, rationalism, faith—what is its worth? Does God exist? If it exists, does it reside in the hearts of men and women, or elsewhere? This is […]
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Book Review of ‘Middlemarch’, by George Eliot 880 pages Review by Anil Saxena I completed the audio version of Middlemarch, a study of provincial life, a book that runs into 800 and odd pages. George Eliot is a pseudonym; the real name of the author was Mary Ann Evans. The question is generally asked—why did
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फ्रांज़ काफ़्का के “द ट्रायल” की समीक्षा | Book Review of ‘The Trial’ by Franz Kafka 208 pages Review by Dinesh Dhawane ऐतिहासिक पृष्ठभूमि फ़्रांज़ काफ़्का का उपन्यास “द ट्रायल” (The Trial) बीसवीं सदी के शुरुआती यूरोप की सामाजिक, राजनीतिक और सांस्कृतिक परिस्थितियों की पृष्ठभूमि में लिखा गया था। इसका लेखन काल लगभग 1914-1915 माना
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Book Review of ‘Our Man in Havana’, by Graham Greene. Pages – 256 Review by Anil Saxena A slim novel—my first by Graham Greene. A dark comedy based in Cuba, written in 1956 (just before the communist takeover), it tells the story of a bored salesman of vacuum cleaners that are hard to sell despite
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Between Faith and Reason: Understanding Kabir through Purushottam Agrawal’s ‘Kabir, Kabir’ and ‘Akath Kahani Prem Ki’. Analysis by Anil Saxena This monograph on Kabir is my attempt to understand what he stood for, through a review and brief introduction of two books written by Purushottam Agrawal: Kabir, Kabir in English (284 pages) and Akath Kahani
