Raja: 563 books

Having lived for so long in a human body if the soul is told to evacuate the body in a day or two, where does soul find another home?There are a few things which even if shared with others do not provide solace and hope. They are imminent and bound to happen, and no amount of consolation or...

“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz was first published in 2007. It proved to be a bestselling novel by this Dominican writer.Junot Diaz was brought up in New Jersey. The novel is a work of fiction, but the author has set it in New Jersey. The story primarily explicitly...

The play describes in complete detail a period of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon against the Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403. Both general audiences and critics have admired the play. Through various allusions...

“Barn Burning” by William Faulkner is a short story. The story was first published in the year 1939 in Harper’s. Since its first appearance, the story has been widely anthologized. The story is basically based on the plot of class conflicts. It describes the influence of fathers on their...

“Salome” by Oscar Wilde was first published in 1891. It was originally published in French language. Three years later, the English translation of this tragedy was published.It is a one act play that tells the Biblical story of Salome, who was the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas.While...

“Legs” by William Kennedy was first published in 1975. It is the author’s first book in Albany Cycle.The novel tells the story of the life of a gangster called Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond. Marcus Gormen is Jack’s lawyer.The story is told from the lawyer’s perspective. “Legs”...

I started excavated the sleeping ideas and decided to give them the shapes of essays, articles, and stories to help my students develop the art of writing. In this series I am presenting random writings which are definitely going to help school and college students if you are pursuing your...

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas Issue #5: April 2019 Featuring Ideas by: Michael Strauss, Ed Simon, Raja Halwani, Robert Noggle, Archie Brown, Michael Robertson, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Peter Levine, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Julian Baggini, Christopher Kavanagh, and Johanna Hanink

“The Awakening” by Kate Chopin is considered to be her best work. It was first published in 1899. The story is set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the 19th century. The story revolves around Edna Pontellier. The story depicts her struggle to reconcile...

This highly original book suggests that the practices of Taliban and the American far right, two very significant and poorly understood groups, share common features. This commonality can be found in the philosophical basis of their ideological beliefs, in their comparative worldviews, and in their...

They take you away from the normal natural breathing and load you with a fear that your normal breathing is wrong. Now you have a fear in your mind and you begin to breathe as the guru has taught you. It has brought fearIn the Western world things are very important, the things which they are...

To complete the writing of the present book, the author is said to have isolated himself for three months and gone to Switzerland.He had been carrying the ideas in his mind since his early teens. In Switzerland he gave shape to the ideas and revised them before bringing them out in the form...

“The Bonfire of the Vanities” by Tom Wolfe was first published in 1987. The story is set in the 1980s in New York City. It explores themes such as racism, ambition, politics, social class, and greed.The story revolves around three major characters, Sherman McCoy, Larry Kramer, and Peter...

“Looking for Alaska” by John Green was first published in March 2005. It is the author’s first young adult novel. The book received Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association in the year 2006.The novel was inspired by the authors’ own education at Indian Springs School...