Thirteen stories that are vignettes of life: of men and women who love, dream, and more importantly, who move with the natural ebb of life. Can someone you met on a transatlantic flight be your soul mate? Why is it that two people fail to connect in any meaningful way despite their best intentions and efforts? What of the ailing man who cant stop thinking of the young girl who was a part of his youthful fantasy? These and other refreshing stories from this debut collection explore the finer aspe...
A Vaisnava Poet in Early Modern Bengal
by Librarian Rembert Lutjeharms
A Spectrum of Indian Fiction in English
by P Gopichand and P Nagasuseela
A Passage to India (1924) and The Machine Stops (1909) Unabridged editions by Edward Morgan Forster OM CH
by Edward Morgan Forster Om Ch
My kinsman and myself were returning to Calcutta from our Puja trip when we met the man in a train. From his dress and bearing we took him at first for an up-country Mahomedan, but we were puzzled as we heard him talk. He discoursed upon all subjects so confidently that you might think the Disposer of All Things consulted him at all times in all that He did. Hitherto we had been perfectly happy, as we did not know that secret and unheard-of forces were at work, that the Russians had advanced clo...
This collection of 24 short stories and poems, an early one in Kipling's career, presages the full range of subject and technique that he was to attain in his later work. This volume highlights Kipling's fascination with the deep contrasts in Indian life and his ambivalent attitude to the ruling British administration.