Summary Kamala Das’s “My Mother at Sixty-Six” is a single-sentence poem. The poet recalls her last meeting with her mother on the previous Friday. The poet visits her parent’s home. Having stayed for some days, she returns. Her mother accompanies her to the airport. While she is with her mother in the car, she looks…
The Temptation of Karna Summary The Temptation of Karna is from the Volume 3, Book 4: The Book of Virata (Udyoga Parva) of The Mahabharata. Dhritarashtra eagerly asks Sanjaya what Krishna and Karna discussed between them. Sanjaya narrates their conversation with the king. Krishna and Karna have a friendly conversation. Vasudeva reveals to Kaunteya his…
In this blog post, I will discuss the summary of The Dicing and The Sequel to the Dicing. We have extracted these two Upa Parvas (subchapters) from Volume 2, Book 2: The Book of Assembly (Sabha Parva) of The Mahabharata. The Dicing” and “The Sequel to the Dicing” set the background for the Kurukshetra war in…
Rabindranath Tagore’s “Chitto jetha bhoyshunyo” or “Where The Mind is Without Fear” is a Bengali poem that was first published in the poetry volume ‘Naibedya’ (1901). Later, Tagore translated it into English and it appeared as poem 35 in his poetry collection Gitanjali or Song Offerings in 1912. Background During the time of the composition of the poem,…
Introduction About the poet Robin S Ngangom is a bilingual poet from Manipur who writes both in English and Manipuri. Ngangom describes his poetry as “mostly autobiographical, written with the hope of enthusing readers with my communal or carnal life — the life of a politically-discriminated-against, historically-overlooked individual from the nook of a third world…