‘The Teaching of English in India’ is an essay on how English is taught and should be taught in India in various levels of education, its difficulties and so on. 

‘Nectar in a Sieve’ is one of the most acclaimed novel by the famous Indian novelist Kamala Markandaya. Published in 1954, the novel is about Rukmani, a…

‘A Handful of Rice’ is a Kamala Markandaya’s haunting novel about the plight of poor and wretched life – a novel about the struggle for survival. It was published in 1966.

‘Bali : The Sacrifice’ is a play written by Girish Karnad in Kannada as ‘Hittina Hunja’ in 1966. The story is taken from Jain mythology.

Yayati is an excerpt from Mahabharata, the great Indian epic. Yayati is a topsy-turvy tale of King Yayati that dwells on his obsession with lust and sex and how he is cursed to premature old age for his infidelity.

Australia by AD Hope is a popular poem in which the author presents a critical view of his country. Hope is a poet, essayist, critic and teacher. American…

‘The Elevation of the Depressed Classes’ is an invigorating speech delivered by Gopal Krishna Gokhale at the Dharwar Social Conference on 27th April, 1903.

‘Self Portrait’ is one among AK Ramanujan’s many poems which deals with identity, here ‘loss of self-identity’. It’s an ‘introspective poem’.

‘Obituary’ by AK Ramanujan is a poem written on the death of the speaker’s father. He explains here how his father’s death has affected his family, particularly himself.

In this poem, A River, AK Ramanujan makes a comparison between old and new poets, the tendency of new poets to plagiarize the old poets and their coldness…