LIFE AND LITERATURE

 H.G WELLS      H.G. Wells (1866-1946) was one of the most prolific, popular, and varied writers of the early twentieth century. His numerous works crossed genres, from science fiction to socialist treatises, from Edwardian satire to sweeping histories, from short stories to Utopian novels. He loomed large in the popular and critical imagination of the time, producing many bestsellers, serving as a target for Virginia Woolf in her 1924 essay “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”, and establishing (and destroying) numerous relationships with key modernist figures like Dorothy Richardson, Rebecca West, George Bernard Shaw, and Henry James. Straddling different genres and eras, Wells remains a complicated and disputed figure.      Born in Kent on September 21, 1866 to a lower-middle-class family, Herbert George Wells led a bookish but unhappy childhood. After shortly attending Thomas Morley’s Commercial Academy, Wells was forced to go to work as an apprentice draper in 1881 after his father, a pro

  ADDISON AND STEELE The English essayist and politician Joseph Addison (1672-1719) founded the "Spectator" periodical with Sir Richard Steele. Joseph Addison was born on May 1, 1672, the son of the rector of Milston, Wiltshire. He was educated at the Charterhouse, an important boarding school, and then at Oxford, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1691. Addison used poetry to further his political ambitions; his earliest poems include flattering references to influential men. In 1699 Addison was rewarded with a grant of money which allowed him to make the grand tour, a series of visits to the main European capitals, which was a standard part of the education of the 18th-century gentleman. One record of his travels is his long poem Letter from Italy. In 1703 Addison returned to England to find that the Whigs, the party with which he had allied himself, were out of power. But his poem on the Battle of Blenheim won him an appointment as commissioner of appeal in e

                                                            HUMAN RIGHTS   Meaning of Human Rights;      Human Rights refer to the "Basic Rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled. Human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and freedom of expression, equality before the law, then social, cultural and economic rights including the right to participate in culture, the right to food, and the right to work, and right to education.  In India, the protection of Human Rights act 1993 defines the Human rights of the individual guaranteed by the Indian Constitution as embodied in the Fundamental Rights. Definition of Human Rights:       Various definitions of human rights have been offered by different scholars, they are:  "A right is a claim recognized by society and enforced by the state".  "Any particular right which we have is a capacity of enjoying some particular status or employing some particular power of action, which has b