‘Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger’ by Saki or Hector Hugh Munro: Short Story Analysis ‘Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger’ is one of Saki’s humorous pieces. This one satirizes the excesses of British colonialists in India during the Edwardian era. It tells us how affluent British women tried to impress each other with acts of daring to become popular in their circles in India and back home in … [Read more...] about ‘Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger’ by Saki or Hector Hugh Munro: Short Story Analysis
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Saki’s: ‘The Stalled Ox’ from the 1914 collection ‘Beasts & Super-Beasts’: Short Story Analysis
Saki's: ‘The Stalled Ox’ from the 1914 collection 'Beasts & Super-Beasts': Short Story Analysis Saki is the true master of witty and macabre storytelling. He proves himself to be a person who does not analyze situations at their face value and gets into the minds of people professing certain ideas. For H. H. Munro, also well known as Saki, the world of simplicity is a … [Read more...] about Saki’s: ‘The Stalled Ox’ from the 1914 collection ‘Beasts & Super-Beasts’: Short Story Analysis
Author Interview: Kiran Dellimore
Fiza: Today I’ll be interviewing aerospace engineer cum indie-author Kiran Dellimore whom I met on Goodreads. I read, reviewed and loved his book ‘Fresh Ereba: A Collection of Caribbean Bedtime Stories for Children’ and thought of interviewing him for my blog insaneowl.com. He is a talented author, a voracious reader but is very approachable and affable at the same time. He is … [Read more...] about Author Interview: Kiran Dellimore
‘A Tale of the Hijras’ by Abdul Jabbar: Short Story Analysis
‘A Tale of the Hijras’ by Indian writer Abdul Jabbar is a realistic short story set in 1969, bringing out the life of the transgender eunuchs of India derogatorily called ‘Hijras’. The correct term for the eunuchs of India is Kinnar which roughly translates to ‘transgender’, so they shall be referred to hereafter in this short story analysis as Kinnars. ‘Hijras’ is the common … [Read more...] about ‘A Tale of the Hijras’ by Abdul Jabbar: Short Story Analysis
‘The End of the World’ by Dino Buzzati: Short Story Analysis
‘The End of the World’ is a nihilistic story of the fantastic penned by twentieth-century bestselling Italian author Dion Buzzati. Buzzati usually wrote haunting stories of the fantastic and arabesque, which were nihilistic, simple, and to the point. This short story titled ‘The End of the World’ is also haunting and nihilistic but moralistic. A reader would typically compare … [Read more...] about ‘The End of the World’ by Dino Buzzati: Short Story Analysis