seamus mcgovern - surendra gupta

Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun. -- from 'Digging'With its lyrical and descriptiv

"Sweeney Astray" is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work "Buile Suibhne". Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adven

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. I

Provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. This book reprints the author's chosen

Written Indian history begins in 6th century bc with the history of Magadh (present day states of Jharkhand & Bihar). For almost a millennium Magadh d

The Jain community in India, though small in number, is very important in the economic and social life of the country. Jain history becomes more impor