![Of Books and the Reading Life – One Bangalorean’s Personal Journey](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/books-470x140.jpg)
Cheriyan Alexander’s recollection from a personal journey of reading and collecting books
![More Real, than Magical](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/gabo-470x140.jpg)
#94616965 / gettyimages.com The Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away on 17th April, 2014. Through his One Hundred Years of Solitude,…
![Updike & Down Gorge](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/rembrandt-470x140.jpg)
Let’s face it, we love this materialism we’re wrapped up into: the word has given ‘imitation’ a new meaning, allowing it to acquire additional shades…
![Nothing is Ever Really Lost: Time and Memory in Eudora Welty’s “Music From Spain”](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/eudora-470x140.jpg)
Eudora Welty’s life and work share a fascination with memory and time. “Of course the greatest confluence of all,” Welty writes in her memoir One…
![The Golden Treasury](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/funeralshelley-470x140.jpg)
Robert Boucheron takes the reader down memory lane to another peek into the trove of poetry, The Golden Treasury
![Writers & "Truth Regimes"](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/socrates-470x140.jpg)
Cheriyan Alexander writes about intolerant regimes that hound writers/artists from time to time and on the role of scriptures in the history of religious intolerance.
![Alice Munro: In the Footsteps of Chekhov](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/alice_munro-470x140.jpg)
Arul Gaspar studies the works of 2013 Nobel prize winning writer, Alice Munro, in relation to the works of master storyteller, Anton Chekhov.
![Bearing Witness to History - A Reflection on two Eastern European poets](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/milosz-470x140.jpg)
Cheriyan Alexander writes on East-European poetry, with focus on Czeslaw Milosz and Vasko Popa.
![Shakespeare of Rajasthan](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/detha-470x140.jpg)
Mohit Parikh throws light on the works of Vijaydan Detha, also known as the Shakespeare of Rajasthan.