A full flowering of the arts is only possible when Literature and Art, Philosophy and Science interact with one another. Kalakshetra is among the very few institutions where all such disciplines interact.

It's a tragedy that a lot of people know more about Shakespeare than about Cao Xueqin.

Dickens saw Victorian England always with the eyres of a pre-Victorian. His ideal England was the England of Hazlitt and of Pickwick.

Interview with [https://web.archive.org/web/20100113132553/http://www.documen.tv/asset/Gabriel_Gracia_Marquez_Film.html Gabriel García Márquez] (1998)

Hyde, Marina

[http://www.poesia-inter.net/indexpn.htm Original poems] - It includes some translations and audio files. All poems are sourced

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

[http://www.biography.com/search/article.jsp?aid=9421737&page=2&search= A&E life story of Neruda]

[http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/li_ching_chao/poems Li Ching Chao Poems and Poetry] at Famous Poets and Poems

Hamish Linklater - Richard Roth

[https://www.studocu.com/en-us/document/university-of-southern-california/seminar-in-humanistic-inquiry/the-abandoned-baobab-book-notes/2209003 Studocu]

[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Hiratsuka+Raichō&btnG= Hiratsuka Raichō] at

Moon Kang — Kim Yu-ri

[http://nativeamericanwriters.com/zitkala-sa.html Early Native American Literature page]

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

Putting Sachin Tendulkar's latest feat in a strictly cricketing context would not be fair to the sportsman. His achievements in the world of cricket need to be seen on a par with efforts in any other field - science, art, literature, etc - to push the frontiers of human excellence.