Branwyn

23/08/2020

Book Review

https://www.neolustre.com/branwyn/oh-but-it-should-never-have-happened-in-a-school.php

By ‘writing a book’, I mean, stories, which are rebellious by nature, explosive by soul and disturbing by heart. I mean stories which drill you way past your comfort-zone

09/08/2020

आचार्य शिवपूजन सहाय को शत शत नमन!

05/08/2020

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

31/07/2020

Joanne Rowling, better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, screenwriter, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history. The books are the basis of a popular film series, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films. She also writes crime fiction under the pen name Robert Galbraith.

30/07/2020

Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published one book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius.

28/07/2020

"Writing gave Mr. Gaurav, what his soul was yearning for, but publishing showed him how the world actually works. In spite of the endless rejections, he has no malice or prejudices... "

Story telling is an art. And the story teller is the artist. When art meets honesty and commitment, a masterpiece is created

26/07/2020

George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw or G. B. Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

25/07/2020

Edward James Corbett was a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author who hunted a number of man-eating tigers and leopards in India. He held the rank of colonel in the British Indian Army and was frequently called upon by the Government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, to kill man-eating tigers and leopards that were preying on people in the nearby villages of the Kumaon-Garhwal Regions.

23/07/2020

Vikram Chandra is an Indian-American writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. His book "Sacred Games" was adapted into a Netflix series.

21/07/2020

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.

20/07/2020

A former national volleyball and football player, Arunima Sinha boarded the Padmavati Express train at Lucknow for Delhi on 12 April 2011. She was pushed out of a general coach of the train by robbers wanting to sn**ch her bag and gold chain.
Immediately, as she fell on the railway track, another train on a parallel track crushed her leg below the knee. She was rushed to the hospital with serious leg and pelvic injuries, and lost her leg after doctors amputated it to save her life.

Determined and dedicated, Arunima Sinha decided to scale world's highest mountain peaks. Thereafter, she became World's first female amputee to scale Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Mount Elbrus (Russia), Mount Kosciusko (Australia), Mount Aconcagua (South America), Carstensz Pyramid (Indonesia) and Mount Vinson.

She is the recipient of the Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian award of India.

In an interview with a News Channel, she said, "Hurdles and obstacles are bound to come. What you make of them, is worth living for."

Arunima Sinha is regarded as the source of inspiration for people around the world who are dealing with hardships in their life.

11/07/2020

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian.
Her debut collection of short-stories Interpreter of Maladies (1999) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. Her second story collection Unaccustomed Earth (2008) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, while her second novel, The Lowland (2013), was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.

11/07/2020

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer and the winner of the 54th Jnanpith award, best known for his work in English fiction.

His Notable Works include
'The Shadow Lines', 'The Glass Palace', 'Sea of Poppies', 'River of Smoke' and 'The Hungry Tide'

08/07/2020

04/07/2020

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts.

03/07/2020

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantasy.

02/07/2020

Mark Philip David Billingham is an English novelist, actor, television screenwriter and comedian whose series of "Tom Thorne" crime novels are best-sellers in that genre.

01/07/2020

Padma Vibhushan Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is an Indian music director and classical flautist, who plays the bansuri, in the Hindustani classical tradition.