If there was ever a character whose looks defies any stereotype of a protagonist, it’s Lisbeth Salander. She’s a short, skinny, tattooed, pale girl with pierced nose and eyebrows. Yes. She is the weird looking girl that kicks butt. When I started reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I thought it was a strange…

Kalgan, which was the Las Vegas of the Galactic Empire appeared in Foundation and empire and Second foundation by the Sci-Fi master, Isaac Asimov. The planet, also dubbed the pleasure world of the Galaxy, had made an industry out of amusement. When the rest of the world spiraled into an economic and intellectual ruin, Kalgan…

Jeeves. The suave, gentleman’s gentleman, the Inimitable Jeeves. Wodehouse’s primary character about whom several books revolve is Bertie Wooster, whose comical misadventures would reach a uncharacteristically sad endings if it were not for his butler Jeeves. In this case, the phrase ‘the butler did it’ takes on a different meaning. The decorous man is always pulling…

If there is one character whose shoes I would love to step into, it would be Isabel Dalhousie, the literary sleuth conjured by Alexander McCall Smith. Isabel is a philosopher and prone to introspection that I find unequivocally delightful. She is the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, loves Auden and her hometown of…