arthinkal biographies

Pain Poem

PAIN

PAIN How long will you pretendHow long will you defendThose tears, they have to run dryThey won’t stop until you cryOr try,One step at a timeYou sift through your lies,With no one by your...

RK Narayan essay

On Why I Love R.K. Narayan

R.K. Narayan. R. K. Balaraman (photographer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. R.K. Narayan is arguably the greatest Indian writer of the post-Independence era. He was a pioneer of Indian-English literature and one of the...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez essay

On the Genius of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Gobierno CDMX, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons I had never heard of Gabriel Garcia Marquez until I began reading fiction in earnest. And that too, it took me a long time to...