Quote of the day
A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.
Balachandra Rajan

Born: 1920
Died: 2009 (aged 89)
Bio: Balachandra Rajan was an Indian diplomat and a scholar of poetry and poetics.
Known for:
- Milton and the Climates of Reading (2006)
- W.B.Yeats: A Critical Introduction (1965)
- The dark dancer (1958)
- Too long in the West (1961)