Mahatma Tolstoy

20.10.26

Maxim Gorky

An unsent letter written by Maxim Gorky to the writer Vladimir Korolenko in November 1910, on the occasion of Tolstoy’s death. I had only just posted a letter to you when telegrams arrived: “Tolstoy has left home.” Here I am writing to you again, continuing our conversation in my mind. What I have to say about this news may seem confused to you. Harsh, too. You may even think I am speaking out of irritation. Forgive me. Someone…

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Kaamathiruvaazhi: Poems by Karthik Netha

Karthik Netha

16.10.26

Ripening Desire This blazing desire is a volcano’s wakeful sleep. To draw close and know beauty, the ego’s roaring surge, the pounding of waves. As the full sun stands blazing, a thirst even water cannot quench. Life gathering…

S. L. Bhyrappa: Literature and Life

S. L. Bhyrappa

13.10.26

S. L. Bhyrappa (20 August 1931 – 24 September 2025), one of the foremost novelists in modern Kannada literature, was a writer with a wide readership across Indian languages. His novels continually explored philosophy, history, religion, family relationships,…

Who Will Write Our Story Now?

Yuval Noah Harari

09.10.26

Artificial intelligence can remember more information than humans, calculate faster, and make complex decisions. What happens if it begins to manage the systems that drive human civilization—economics, law, politics—more efficiently than we can? What will become of democracy?…

Manaiyaram, Two Chapters

M. Gopalakrishnan

09.10.26

Chapter 20 As the car approached the gate, the man came running, as though he had been waiting for it. The guard who had opened the gate hurriedly caught hold of him and pulled him back. “How many…

Book of the Week

The Taste of Suffering: V. Amalan Stanley’s "Verum Thaanaai Nilainindra Tharparam"

“I go in search of myself. It is in this search that my essence lies. The path I walk in the course of my search belongs to poetry.” These are…

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Writer of the Week

K.Kamalakannan

K. Kamalakannan (August 03, 1986) is a Tamil writer and translator. He has translated works of world literature into Tamil and has written essays and short stories.

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