'Did the Nobel committee, reviled for awarding Mr Dylan, play a little inside joke this time around, by awarding another lyricist who was once an aspiring musician?' asks Uttaran Das......
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is not widely known in India. A Frenchmen of Jewish origin, his fame rests on his novel Remembrance of Things Past. It is considered, after Tolstoy's War and Peace, the......
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a New Year resolution for our policy-makers.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com As we step into 2020 and battle for new ideas on how to grow our economy and......
I stared at the sheaf of photocopied reading material that the instructor had distributed to our class, anger welling up inside me. "Many years had passed during which nothing of Combray . . . had......
It's a film clever enough to call Marcel Proust a 'total loser.' Yup, that's a quote. Frank (Steve Carell) is counselling his nephew Dwayne (Paul Dano) about why he should not miss his 'prime......