Nightmares with teasingly symbolic undertones, events that are difficult to disbelieve, yet more difficult to believe, obsessions that pass off as the bench marks of normalcy—all together contribute to the narrator’s confusion and push him into the outer edge of the mind. This narrator named Debasis, a settled, middle-aged, utterly ordinary bloke, becomes aware of his somewhat neurotic state of mind, and tries, in his own eccentric way, to regain his ...
The poet Bhartrihari probably flourished in the first century B.C. His Three Shatakas maps the journey of the human mind through different stages of growth and maturity: from the pleasures of erotic love and ecstatic celebration of senses through an indignant rejection of earthly pleasures to an equanimity, a calm attained by the taming of the temptations through meditation and philosophical contemplation on the nature of things. In keeping with Hindu view of ...
Tennessee Williams has already achieved the status of a classic; his reputation has endured beyond the movement at which his plays were first produced, and now promises to outlive the changes in taste which have occurred since Indeed, nearly half a century after his debut on the stage, his best known dramas, particularly The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, are played and replayed in theatres and on the screen , large and small, throughout the entire ...