Page 21 - Literature

The short and the long of it

How many stories should make up a collection?

Smart public-speaking programmes to bring out the orator in your child

Several such Indian and global programmes, aimed at school and college students, have actually helped them prepare for higher education and chart their career path

From the stomach of whales

'The way words are used is a running leitmotif in this collection', says the author

Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe & the 'colonisation' of African literature

Published 60 years ago this year by Heinemann in London, Things Fall Apart has sold more than 10m copies and been translated into more than 50 languages

The poetic voice of the Caribbean that demanded to be heard

Walcott's expansive universe revolved around a tiny sun, the island of St Lucia