Shankaradeva We can summarize Shankaradeva’s contribution to Assamese culture in two points. He borrowed the plot for his one-act plays from other religious texts. However, he twisted and mingled certain additional elements to cater to the taste of the common folk of Assam. Ankiya Nats are one-act plays that primarily focus on the supremacy of…
In this blog post, I will cover the following points: Sudraka’s Mrichchhakatika Summary The play Mrichchhakatika by Sudraka follows the love story between a merchant Charudatta and a courtesan Vasantasena. Both are passionate about each other, but Sakara, the king’s brother-in-law, also desires Vasantasena. Therefore, he stands as a threat to the lovers. He first tries to…
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,…
Shakuntala Summary Shakuntala by Kalidasa is primarily about the love story of Shakuntala and King Dushyanta and their reunion. One day, King Dushyanta goes to the forest to hunt. He is in pursuit of a blackbuck, and after a long chase, he enters the vicinity of the hermitage of Kanva. An ascetic stops him from hunting…
“The Free Radio” is a story that appeared in the anthology of short stories East, West in 1994. Salman Rushdie, the writer of the short story, tells the story of Ramani through the eyes of a retired schoolteacher, the narrator. The Free Radio Summary “The Free Radio” is the story of Ramani, a rickshaw driver who falls in…