Eckhart Tolle bagan his spiritual quest at the age of 29 after a bout of suicidal depression. He punctuated it by becoming a language teacher in London for three years. His father did not force him to go to school and Eckhart often studied topics such as Astronomy, Literature and Language at home.Source: TriviaA New... Continue Reading →

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American Gods by Neil Gaiman is a "cross-country adventure that explored a world in which the gods of old struggled to remain relevant in modern American culture." About the book, Gaiman has said, “All of the things that I loved about America that just seemed weird went into ‘American Gods,’ ” he laughed. “I was fascinated by the... Continue Reading →

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Orwell in his book Politics and the English Language gave us his point on crispiness and the importance of lucid simple language. He votes "vague language" as a powerful and helpful tool in politically manipulating readers. In a nutshell here the six rules for writers: Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are... Continue Reading →

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One of the common complaints about Wilde's novel was that it didn't take a strong moral stance, and that it demonstrated the author's own immorality (Wilde was a famously scandalous celebrity). Frustrated with these goody-two-shoes critics, Wilde responded that they had committed "the unpardonable crime of trying to confuse the artist with his subject matter."... Continue Reading →

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Did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien even based one of his characters on C.S. Lewis? Treebeard, the leader of the walking trees known as “Ents,” shares many of Lewis’s mannerisms, such as a booming voice and a constant throat-clearing habit. The deep camaraderie the duo shared is probably best summarized in a letter from Tolkien... Continue Reading →

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If it were not for an 8-year-old girl named Alice, the world may never have seen Rowling's Harry Potter series. Nigel Newton is the founder of Bloomsbury, a publishing house that was, at the time, very small and had barely gotten started. He reluctantly accepted Rowling's manuscript but did not read it himself, instead handing it over... Continue Reading →

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by his pseudonym Mark Twain. Twain is the archaic word for 'Two'. He chose this name after having spent his youth on the Mississippi riverside where when the leadsman's line sank to the two--fathom knot, meaning the boat had a safe twelve feet of water beneath it, he called out,... Continue Reading →

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The book is about nine Indians (one in present-day Pakistan) and their tryst with religion and spirituality. For the launch of the book in India some of the characters in the book performed for the audience, with one of character's Hari Das from Kerala leading the Theyyam troupe and Paban Das Baul from Bengal leading the Baul singers. Source: Nine Lives on Wikipedia Nine... Continue Reading →

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