fiction
-
When Fiction Turns to Polemic: Llosa and the Price of Leaving the Temple
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Nobel Laureate, remained a towering figure in the literary world and died this year after a long literary life. I often wonder what his literary career might have been if he had avoided the journalistic… Continue reading
-
The Weight of Conscience: Chekhov, Signatures, and the Writer’s Dilemma —Pragya’s Pen
Anton Chekhov once attended a dinner party in Continental Hotel to celebrate the anniversary of the abolition of serfdom. It was 19 February 1861. It was cold and livid weather outside, while in the hall, elite groups drank wine and… Continue reading
-
In the Mind’s Theatre, Plot Dissolves”
From my ongoing reflections in “Pragya’s Pen and Perception”—a series on fiction, consciousness, and the dissolving boundaries of narrative. Where has the plot of fiction gone? I love Anton Chekhov and Guy De Maupassant’s fiction, they trailed forward in a… Continue reading
-
The Political Machinery of the Book Volga se Ganga (From Volga to Ganga)
“Great art is born only when knowledge is transfigured into feeling.” Volga se Ganga (From Volga to Ganga) by Rahul Sankrityayan—when I read it for the first time, I didn’t dive through or formulate it with my own eyes, which… Continue reading
Pragya’s Pen 