Tara, the O’Haras’ plantation in Margaret Mitchell’s epic Gone with the Wind. The main reason for the protagonist being who she was and what she did. The thing that she cherished most, the thing that mattered most was Tara. Scarlett was loyal to the land, and the land, in turn, to her. She was not…

He was a not-the-front-page messiah who gave rides on a bi-plane across fields to people who are scared of flying, among others. The one who said, “You don’t judge the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.” This was a book that I read growing up, at an age when I was…

Tolkein’s painting. Pic credit: Wikipedia [Frodo] walked along the terraces above the loud flowing Bruinen and watched the pale cool sun rise above the far mountains, and shine down, slanting through the thin silver mist; the dew upon the yellow leaves were glimmering, and the woven nets of gossamer twinkled on every bush. This is…

pic: from amazon.com The bell ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral, the hunchback Quasimodo, was created in the story by Victor Hugo to emphasize injustice and superficiality of the bourgeois. Who invokes in the reader a deep and violent sense of sympathy, tragedy and social guilt. A foundling, Quasimodo who was one eyed with a…