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Four participants of an international conference on "The Art of Story-Telling"- three young persons and one not so young - prefer to remain in each other's company, decide to overstay and spend three days together in a beachside hotel in Goa before leaving for their respective home towns. While in Goa, they tell stories of their own invention, each of them telling a story every day, thereby recreating a backdrop immortalized by the 14th century writer Giovanni Boccaccio in The Decameron. Each of our group of four tells three stories in the course of three days. Some of the stories are...

If the son of a king decides to spend one year among his subjects disguised as a common man, does his mode of thought differs from that of others? The answer will be affirmative so long as he remembers his connection with the king. What's the nature of that difference? Then does that thought, that awareness, have any bearing on his attitude to life and on his daily activities? While living his one year term as a common man, he may be unjustly accused of theft and be convicted by a pliant judiciary. Should he accept that verdict as a common man or declare his connection to escape punishment?...

This book contains insightful discussions on Modernism, Postmodernism, Magical Realism, Expressionism, Dialogism and other Literary Theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Deconstruction (Jacques Derrida), One-Dimensional Man (Herbert Marcuse), The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco), The Da Vince Code (Dan Brown), Don Juan (Lord Byron), The Operation Sidewinder and The Tooth of Crime (Sam Shepard) and the plays of Shakespeare such as All's Well That Ends Well, Much Ado about Nothing, Troilus and Cressida, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Measure for Measure and other Problem Play

Literate persons world over are more or less familiar with the names of ancient Greek heroes, monsters, gods and goddesses, but many of them may not be well-informed about them. This book is an attempt to supply information about them in a pleasant manner. While enjoying the adventures of these heroes and their confrontation with different monsters, the reader may get such facts right as would enable him or her to understand and appreciate western literatures better and mention their names in their writings and conversation with greater confidence. The hero and the monster stand for opposite...