(Image Credit: netgalley.com) Kay Harel informs us about the elucidation of the great novelist Henry James after the latter visited Charles Darwin at his house at Down House. According to James, “Darwin is the sweetest, simplest, gentlest old Englishman you ever saw…He said nothing wonderful and was wonderful in no way but in not being … Continue reading Darwin’s Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia– Kay Harel

(Image Credit: Ananda Vikatan) The genius of Kalki is an almost deliberately understated – muted even - brilliance. After almost 450 pages overlaying 2 books, in Chapter 13 (that is prosaically titled “Ponniyin Selvan”) of Volume 2, the author in an incredibly matter-of-fact manner conveys one of the most important (if not the most important) … Continue reading Ponniyin Selvan – Suzhar Kaatru (Volume 2) – Kalki Krishnamurthy