Arundhati Roy was brought up by her mother in Kerala. She came alone to Delhi when she was 16 years old. She stayed with friends in a slum in Feroz Shah Kotla and sometimes sold empty beer bottles. Later she attended the Delhi School of Architecture.
Oscar Wilde had sent a telegram to his publisher to know how his book was doing in the market. He sent – ‘?’ The publisher replied – ‘!’
Tagore’s famous poem Bharattirtha is a reflection of his spirit of harmony of religions, caste and creed. In Bharattirtha, Tagore describes India as a pilgrimage where people from different parts of the globe have congregated and settled down. When it was first published in the Pravasi Patrika, it was named Matree-Abhishek (adoring the mother). Later the name was changed to Bharattirtha. He said …
Salinger was a Jewish Catholic by birth, but as an adult he did not follow any of these family faiths. He practiced Zen Buddhism for several years during late 1940. Then, in 1952, he read Joseph Campbell’s translation of The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, and became a follower of Advaita Vedanta Hinduism.
Tagore wrote Visva-Parichay, an essay on science, which is basically a reflection of his scientific temper. It is also a testimony to the fact that such a temper is an attitude which is not necessarily the monopoly of a student or teacher or researcher of science. He dedicated this book to Prof. S.N. Bose of Bose-Einstein statistics …
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes in 1887 and the fictional detective became a phenomenon. When Doyle attempted to kill Holmes in 1893 in the story The Final Problem, there was a public outrage. In 1903, Doyle was forced to bring Holmes to life through his story The Adventure of the Empty House.
