Between Escape and Awakening: Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale and the Human Desire to Transcend Reality Introduction: The Human Desire to Escape What do we do when reality becomes difficult to bear? Human beings have always searched for moments of …

Ethics, Individuality and the Reinterpretation of Tradition: Tagore, Toru Dutt and Sri Aurobindo Introduction Indian literature frequently examines the tension between appearance and reality, inherited ideals and individual experience, and public re…

Indian Thought, Culture and National Consciousness: Radhakrishnan, Raghunathan, Nirad Chaudhuri and Raja Rao Introduction Indian Writing in English is deeply connected with the question of how India understands itself. Particularly in the twentieth …