Being a huge fan of 18th and 19th century British Literature, it’s always a pleasure to discover a new writer from the era. A friend of mine recommended that I read Elizabeth Gaskell. So off I went to the bookstore and picked up ‘Cranford and Other Stories’. I loved it. Gaskell’s work although entirely original is at the same time a hybrid of Jane Austin plot-lines and Charles Dickens humor. A few months ago, I…
Period drama
Being a huge period movie fan, I had awaited the release of ‘Jodha Akbar’ with some trepidation. The Indian movie industry does not generate period based cinema as frequently and as well as Hollywood. Such movies are low on content and loosely based on factual information. ‘Jodha Akbar’ was keeping up to the cliché as several controversies cropped up prerelease around the veracity of the ‘love’ affair around the political betrothal of Mughal Emperor Akbar…
