Commonwealth Literature

The Waiting Earth The Author Punyakante Wijenaike is a Sri Lankan writer with distinguished qualities accustomed to herself alone. She had been writing [...]

Biography Nissim Ezekiel is an Indian poet who is famous for writing his poetry in English. He had a long career spanning more [...]

Things Fall Apart Setting The novel is set during the late 1800s – early 1900s in a small village called Umuofia situated in the [...]

Biography A K Ramanujan (1929 – 1993) A K Ramanujan is regarded as one of the gems of Indian English poets. His poets [...]

Biography Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government [...]

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 [...]