Tag Archives: English

Once in a while, a writer unintentionally creates a set of characters that become popular beyond his/her imagination and their fan-following becomes almost a cult. Julian, Dick, Georgiana, Anne and Timothy the dog came into existence when Enid Blyton wrote “Five on a Treasure Island“. The story featuring the brave children and their dog on a summer adventure was first ... Read More »

The October 2013 issue of Safari – a science and knowledge magazine from India is out and here are our personal informative reviews about the same. The cover page contains the illustration of International space station giving us the hint to have a detailed article about the same inside. The Earth in the background looks good. The inside cover page ... Read More »

First published in 1965, “The Source”, by James A Michener, is part of the pool made by the endless number of books written by mankind about God and religion. And yet, it is different in a way that it hardly discusses God and Religion as we are accustomed to see it portrayed in literature. Book Title : The Source Author ... Read More »

First published in 1963, “Caravans”, by James A Michener, is one of the first stories to come out of Afghanistan. Written as memoir of an employee of the American embassy, it vividly captures the complicated Afghan life, in the post world-war II era. Today, when we think of Afghanistan, we invariably think of it as a victim caught in the ... Read More »

A blue whale coming onto the surface vertically – is what you see on the cover page of September 2013 issue of Safari – science and knowledge magazine. This time let us start from the “All About” article which starts from the last cover page. (The back cover page also continues dark blue theme as this article is also related ... Read More »

As the life moves on like a wheel, there are ups and downs. We cannot win every time, we have to accept that. We are blessed with a great organ named brain and have a tremendous ability to store memories. But sometimes some memories from the Past life comes haunting us, and we think it will affect adverse on our ... Read More »