Pure Land Buddhism offers a way to enlightenment for people who can't handle the subtleties of meditation, endure long rituals, or just live especially good lives. Pure Land Buddhism offers a way to ...

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Amitabha Bagchi is the author of four novels. His most recent novel, 'Half the Night is Gone' (Juggernaut, 2018), was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature and the Hindu Literary Prize.

Shukla, who wrote over 25 books, including ‘Raag Darbari’, ‘Sooni Ghaati Ka Sooraj’, and ‘Bisrampur Ka Sant’, was born on December 31, 1925.

In which the requirements of literary greatness are revealed to the author, in mathematical terms, no less, by one who claims to be greater than Mir or Ghalib - indeed, the greatest Urdu poet of all ...