2nd Year

Divorcee About Author Ken Saro-Wiwa 1941–1995(Full name Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa) Nigerian novelist, essayist, diarist, poet, short story writer, playwright, television writer and producer. [...]

The Postmaster INTRODUCTION: “The Postmaster,” a story by Rabindranath Tagore,( 1861-1941) a gifted Indian writer and thinker, achieved a world-wide reputation when he as [...]

Unworthy Gift Far below flowed the Jumna, swift and clear,Above frowned the jutting bank.Hills dark with the woods and scarredWith the torrents were [...]

A Far Cry from Africa A wind is ruffling the tawny peltOf Africa. Kikuyu, quick as flies,Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt.Corpses [...]

Night Rain What time of night it is I do not know Except that like some fish Doped out of the deep I [...]

My Grandmother’s House There is a house now far away where onceI received love……. That woman died,The house withdrew into silence, snakes movedAmong [...]

Background Casually A poet-rascal-clown was born,The frightened child who would not eatOr sleep, a boy of meager bone.He never learned to fly a [...]

Obituary Father, when he passed on,left duston a table of papers,left debts and daughters,a bedwetting grandsonnamed by the tossof a coin after him, [...]

A River  In Madurai,city of temples and poets,who sang of cities and temples,every summera river dries to a tricklein the sand,baring the sand [...]

Telephone Conversation The price seemed reasonable, locationIndifferent. The landlady swore she livedOff premises. Nothing remainedBut self-confession. “Madam”, I warned,“I hate a wasted journey [...]