Chit-chat-lit

Difference between Literature and History: A short view on What a Literature can be -JS.N (10/03/2019) Literature is creative and history is merely a factual. Most of historical writing thus tend to be half history. Either conscious neglect will be there or exageration. So creativity comes in. Justifying foregrounding needs creative portrayal. Lot of selection goes in to writing history. What data to include, what to foreground, what is the motto behind writing that history are all the factors that rest with the author. Both the subjects are inter-related in the sense that literature deals with the past, as in stream of consiousness, counter factual imaginations, memoires, travelogues, biography...  And any day we will prefer reading an interesting history book than a collection of facts. So writing style and diction does play a role. For that matter, any written script can be literature. Your grocery bill can tell me your culinary preferance, your financial status, y

The Looking Glass -Kamala Das  A review by JS N. (31/01/2019)  The Looking Glass is a poem from Kamala Das’s collections of poem entitled “The Descendants”. It is her second volume of poetry which deals with the Nihilism or Pessimism: “We are not going to be ever redeemed or made new ”. The Looking Glass is also included under the term nihilism. For she produced the poem in a sarcastic tone, mocking the cruelty of man towards his counterpart . The Looking Glass is a short lyrical poem of twenty four lines. It is spontaneously produced, that it contains no break in lines and there is no specified rhyme scheme or rhythm in these linked lines. However she introduced some simile and metaphor to draw the attention of her readers especially females .                          On getting into the title of the poem, “The Looking Glass” literally means “mirror”. But an analytical view of the title would recognize the word “glass” in itself means “mirror”, coming from its root