Modern Fiction

It’s officially booty o’clock, I’m alone again in my kitchen choking down a slice of terrible chocolate cake…and I’m pretty sure I just got drunk texted by the man I have a ginormous crush on. I’ve been daydreaming about Eliot Hoffman’s dimples for two months, and even though I’m sure this was a mistake on his end, it doesn’t mean it’s not an opportunity on mine. It’s the middle of the night, and I just wanna talk to him. So I text him back.

A Room of One's Own, among Virginia Woolf's best-known works, is an extended essay, based on two lectures that she delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's constituent colleges at the University of Cambridge. First published in September 1929 as a book, this seminal feminist text makes a case for a literal and figurative space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by men.

सुप्रसिद्ध नाटककार बादल सरकार की यह कृति बांग्ला और हिन्‍दी दोनों भाषाओं में अनेक बार मंचस्थ हो चुकी हैं। बांग्ला में शम्भू मित्र (‘बहुरूपी’, कलकत्ता) और हिन्‍दी में श्यामानन्‍द जालान (‘अनामिका’, कलकत्ता), सत्यदेव दुबे (‘थियेटर यूनिट’, बम्बई) तथा टी.पी. जैन (‘अभियान’, दिल्ली) ने इसे प्रस्तुत किया।

‘लहरों के राजहंस’ में एक ऐसे कथानक का नाटकीय पुनराख्यान है जिसमें सांसारिक सुखों और आध्यात्मिक शान्ति के पारस्परिक विरोध तथा उनके बीच खड़े हुए व्यक्ति के द्वारा निर्णय लेने का अनिवार्य द्वन्द्व निहित है। इस द्वन्द्व का एक दूसरा पक्ष स्त्री और पुरुष के पारस्परिक सम्बन्धों का अन्तर्विरोध है। जीवन के प्रेम और श्रेय के बीच एक कृत्रिम और आरोपित द्वन्द्व है, जिसके कारण व्यक्ति के लिए चुनाव कठिन हो जाता है और उसे चुनाव करने की स्वतंत्रता भी नहीं रह जाती। चुनाव की यातना ही इस नाटक का कथा-बीज और उसका केन्द्र-बिन्दु है।

Do you believe that fear only haunts the distant bhoot bangla, crumbling fort or empty village streets? Surely, it can’t touch you now. You’ve distanced yourself from the darkness by living in the glare of city lights, hiding inside secure houses, comforted by a regular job. But what if fear has accompanied you into the modern world? What if it lives inside you, eating away at your heart and mind? After all, fear is just a ticking time bomb that explodes when you least expect it, leaving your reality...twisted.

Desperate to escape their high-pressure life in Los Angeles, the Finch family moves to rural Oregon. But it doesn’t take long to learn that “small town” is not code for “stress-free.” As the new owners of Applegate's one and only general store, the Finches find that the simple life’s anything but simple when your little store is the town's only grocery store, gas station, hardware store, fire station, and occasional dentist’s office.

When Yao Shen, Patriarch of the Heavenly Sky Sect, ascends and regains memories of his past life on Planet Earth, he realizes that he can no longer allow himself to accept the cruel and violent ways of Eliria, the realm of cultivation. So he decides to change it. It was time to found a new sect. One based on the values of honor and equality over senseless violence and discrimination. A sect where all, from the mortal farmer’s son to a sect elder's daughter, were held accountable to the same rules.

जीवन को अनुभूति और चिन्तन के विभिन्न धरातलों पर ग्रहण करनेवाले कवि कुँवर नारायण अपनी कविताओं में सीमाएँ नहीं बनाते; उनकी ज़्यादातर कविताएँ किसी एक ही तरह की भाषा या विषय में विसर्जित-सी हो गई नहीं लगतीं—दोनों को विस्तृत करती लगती हैं। अनेक कविताएँ मानो समाप्त नहीं होतीं, एक ख़ास तरह की हमारी बेचैनियों का हिस्सा बन जाती हैं। इस तरह से देखें तो वे अपने को सिद्ध करनेवाले कवि हमें नहीं नज़र आते। वे बराबर अपनी कविताओं में मुहावरों से बचते हैं और अपने ढंग से उनसे लड़ते भी हैं। उनकी कविता की भाषा में धोखे नहीं हैं।

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When the Dickenson clan sits down for Thanksgiving dinner in 2016, it is the last holiday where their tight-knit family will ever be the same. Oldest brother Pete and his wife are expecting their first child. Youngest sibling Sophie is too busy running her restaurant. The Little Plum, to bother with any kind of social life. And middle child Charlie’s happy, uncomplicated life as a midwestern science professor is upended when his wife Annette is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Knowing this will be her last Thanksgiving, Annette asks Sophie to look after Charlie after she’s gone.

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