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Dhaak: Breakfast with John Milton

John Milton was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious and political instability, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. […]

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James Shirley, the last of the Elizabethans

James Shirley (1596-1666) is one of the most significant dramatic writers of the late English Renaissance. He had an easy command of tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, masque, pastoral, morality, and neo-miracle genres. His non-dramatic works include poems and grammars. […]

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Begunkodar railway station in Purulia district of West Bengal came in Indian Railways records as one of its 10 'haunted' railway stations in 1967 after passengers deserted it when the station master reportedly died after seeing a white sari clad woman walking along[...]

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Dhaak: Walt Whitman, spedning a day with the master poet

Walt Whitman is America's world poet—a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare. In Leaves of Grass (1855, 1891-2), he celebrated democracy, nature, love, and friendship. This monumental work chanted praises to the body as well as to the soul, and found beauty and reassurance even in death. […]

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James Leigh Hunt, he introduced Shelley and Keats to the public by publishing their poems in the ‘Exami...

James Henry Leigh Hunt better known as Leigh Hunt was an English poet, essayist, journalist, editor, writer and critic, who remained a prominent figure of the Romantic Movement in England. He was editor of influential journals like 'The Reflector', and 'The Indicator', at a time when periodicals were culturally quite effective and on the roll. […]

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Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield

Goldsmith died after a brief illness in 1774, at the age of just 43, and is buried in London's Temple Church. Johnson would remember him as a man 'who left scarcely any kind of writing untouched and who touched nothing that he did not adorn'. […]

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Sir Walter Scott, the poetic Unionist and a Tory

Scott was the most successful writer of his day. Not only did he sell more books, but he was the author most generally admired. He was a radical inventor of literary forms, and he turned the novel into an expressive medium for a variety of period, class, and regional experience. All British, American, and European novelists of the nineteenth century learned from his ways of writing. He was the great inventor in opera too. […]

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T S Eliot, From a Neurotic Banker to a Neurotic Worldwide Literary Hero

Eliot didn’t just write with the literature of the past “in his bones,” as he put it. He made poems out of the poems of other people. He wrote a poem about Venice that is also a poem about poems about Venice. […]

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Dhaak: Alfred, Lord Tennyson – "A state of transcendent wonder"

Born in 1809, Alfred Tennyson's poetic career spans much of the nineteenth century. Described as the 'great voice of Victorian England,' Tennyson became Poet Laureate in 1850. After his death in 1892, Tennyson left a literary legacy which includes many of the most popular nineteenth century poems. […]

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Many migratory birds in Assam including tiger bittern, little egret, black bittern, pond heron, Indian pitta and kingfishers are affected by the mysterious phenomenon at Jatinga. Species of birds including black drone, hill partridge, green pigeon, emerald dove, an[...]

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Taslima Nasreen - The exiled writer

Years after she was expelled from Bangladesh, controversial author Taslima Nasreen still has no idea whether she will ever return home, but she refuses to give up trying. […]

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Nestled deep in the Himalayan mountains at 5029 m above sea level, Roopkund Lake is a small body of water (~40 m in diameter) that is colloquially referred to as Skeleton Lake due to the remains of several hundred ancient humans scattered around its sho[...]

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Nathuram Vinayak Godse was a nationalist and editor of a newspaper who assassinated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on January 30, 1948, when Gandhi Ji visited the then Birla House in New Delhi for a prayer meeting. Godse had fired three bullets at Gandhi?s chest from a[...]

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Remembering Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, the ‘Awara Masiha’

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay | শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায় , fashioned outspoken contemporary women at a time when women’s lives were mostly confined to their homes. […]

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Toru Dutt - Keats of the Indo-English literature

Toru Dutt can undoubtedly be regarded as the first Indian poet, who composed in English and French. Toru Dutt is also called Keats of the Indo-English literature. During the closing years of her life she studied Sanskrit, and it brought her to the spring of her own literature. Little wonder then that even 137 years after her death, Toru Dutt’s contribution to literature is vividly remembered. […]

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Sone Bhandar Riddle | सोन भंडार की पहेली

Sone Bhandar in translation means the store of gold and a legend goes saying that there is treasure hidden in its walls. On the wall of the cave, there is a trace of carving which resembles that of a doorway and next to it is a 'difficult to understand' inscription in the Sankhilpi or Shell script. It is said that this inscription is a password and the person who would read it could open the door and enter the passage. The same inscription has been found in Java and Burma and these too, have never been decoded. Tonight we bring you the story of a team that solved this 2500 years old riddle. Listen to the story now narrated by your host and dost, Tushar Sen : podcast

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John Keats - A joy forever

In 1820, the British poet spent 10 days quarantined in the Bay of Naples as typhus raged, an enforced stillness mirrored by our own. […]

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