Bandana Sharma
Bandana Sharma was born in Lucknow in the year 1957. Her father held a senior position in the Directorate of Education and her mother was a broad-minded and intelligent home-maker. Bandana Sharma was educated at the St. Mary’s Convent in Allahabad and went to the University of Allahabad, where she got her Master’s degree and her Ph. D in English Literature. She went on to teach English at the Allahabad University for forty three years and retired as Head of Department and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Early in her career, Bandana developed interest in Buddhism. Her Ph. D thesis, out of whicRead More...
Joey & Other Stories
Books by Bandana Sharma
This book consists of a novella, Joey, and seven short stories : “Mrs. Hussain,” “Oindrilla,” “The Clock,”“Polly,” “Cordelia,” “Angrez Memsaheb” and “Gopal Chacha.”.On the insistence of well-wishers I have included an essay that I wrote as an undergraduate: “Listening to Rain.”
These stories and the novella belong to the old-fashioned and easy days of the 19
Shakespeare Through Buddhism
Books by Bandana Sharma
Shakespeare and the Buddha may seem to have little in common between them but studying the two together can help coming to an entirely different conclusion. The similarity in the ideas of the two is amazing. The Buddha has dwelt at length on suffering and its cause; also, how it affects man. Shakespeare has shown suffering in his great tragedies and other plays and traces its cause to a flaw in the tragic hero or erring character. The reasons for human sufferi
Shakespeare Through Buddhism
Books by Bandana Sharma
Shakespeare and the Buddha may seem to have little in common between them but studying the two together can help coming to an entirely different conclusion. The similarity in the ideas of the two is amazing. The Buddha has dwelt at length on suffering and its cause; also, how it affects man. Shakespeare has shown suffering in his great tragedies and other plays and traces its cause to a flaw in the tragic hero or erring character. The reasons for human sufferi
Saba & Nisha
Books by Lakshmi Raj Sharma
Saba is a child of nature. Her mother, Meher, has had accidents in life. The first of which was finding a lover in a man whose religion she did not know.
Meher’s lover is forced to marry his neighbor, the wily, Mohini, who falsely accuses him of having used her, when she is with someone else’s child.
Meher and Saba live in seclusion, hiding from people as much as possible. Saba joins an English course at the Allahabad University where she find
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