Outside Gabriel García Márquez’s old house in Aracataca hangs a sign bearing one of his famous quotes: “I came back to smell the guava.” The writer made this statement ...

Yet, for literature to be shaped, it had to be published first. “How can literature exist,” Llosa had once asked, “in countries where there are no publishing houses, where there are ...

What was your purpose behind writing this book? I didn’t want anybody to grow up thinking the Indian nation attacked the Sikhs or that Hindus attacked the Sikhs. Because that was simply not tru...

One Hundred Years of Solitude and its eventual popularity also changes Márquez the writer. He who had worked till that point in his life towards being mature enough to deliver this singular work that...

The pandemic of 2020 has paralysed the world into a stupor and forced us to spend anxiety-filled days in isolation. In these troubled times, whether you binge-watch a show on Netflix or dust off the b...

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Yet, somehow, it is more convenient to put Camus in a box and tag him as merely an existentialist and a lofty intellectual, labels that continue to define him in spite of his persistent disavowals. Bu...