Recent Highlights
All Stories for English Literature
Booker Prize Shortlist 2019: Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood among authors nominated for literary honour
Fp Staff • 6 years agoFormer Booker winners Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood are in the running for the literary honour for Quichotte and The Testaments respectively.
Rheea Mukherjee on her novel The Body Myth, and why voyeurism is rooted in our own hypocrisies
Anvishamanral • 6 years agoThe Body Myth is a sapid meditation on loving and being loved in health and sickness.
Remembering Allen Ginsberg, the Beat poet whose search for life's meaning brought him to India
Aarushi Agrawal • 6 years agoAllen Ginsberg was one of the pillars of the American literary movement of the Beat Generation. In 1962 he visited India and was deeply influenced by the country's diverse and surprising sensibility.
Classics can be perceived as elitist, remote; key is to make them more approachable for modern readers
Henry Eliot • 6 years agoClassics expand our daily experience. And while it’s true there are hurdles to overcome, these books allow us to see the world in more colours and live our lives more fully.
English, August turns 30: A look at Upamanyu Chatterjee's book and the movie adaptation that wasn't
Manik Sharma • 7 years agoThe personality of Agastya Sen, the protagonist of English, August, finds a reflection in the way that many of India's millennials are today | #FirstCulture
Austenistan: Pakistan's love for Jane Austen could rival the Darcy-Elizabeth romance
Apoorva_fpcms • 7 years agoIt is a truth universally acknowledged that the world loves Jane Austen. But there's a special romance reserved for her in Pakistan | #FWeekend
Delhi university puts on hold proposal to include Chetan Bhagat book, Facebook post writing in curriculum
• 7 years agoThe proposal by Delhi University's English department to include author Chetan Bhagat's novels in the literature curriculum and introduce a course on writing Facebook posts has hit a roadblock.
The vast universe of poet-professor Eunice de Souza, and a student's place in it
Karishma Attari • 8 years agoThat people die is an established fact of life. I suspect, however, that Eunice de Souza, poet, literary critic, English professor, theatre person, novelist, and columnist didn’t go quietly into the good night, writes author Karishma Attari.
Delhi University to teach literature students how to write Facebook posts
• 8 years agoThe Delhi University is now planning to teach its English literature students "how to write Facebook posts".
Chetan Bhagat's book Five Point Someone will now be a part of DU English Literature syllabus
Fp Staff • 8 years agoChetan Bhagat's first and bestselling novel Five Point Someone will now be a part of the English literature syllabus in the University of Delhi.