Wednesday, July 18, 2012

1000 Books must read before you die!!

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith    Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee    Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson    The Sea – John Banville The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble    The Plot Against America – Philip Roth    The Master – Colm Tóibín    Vanishing Point – David Markson    The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd    Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair    Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell    Drop...

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

PANCHATANTRA

About the Panchatantra One of India's most influential contributions to world literature, the Panchatantra (also spelled Pañcatantra or Pañca-tantra) consists of five books of animal fables and magic tales (some 87 stories in all) that were compiled, in their current form, between the third and fifth centuries AD. It is believed that even then the stories were already ancient. The tales' self-proclaimed purpose is to...