Fiction

Have you ever wondered why you often dream of falling from a great height? Have you ever dreamt of swimming, flying, or drowning? Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams introduces the theory of the unconscious in relation to interpreting dreams. In the book, Freud states that dreams are a result of two processes: an unconscious force that makes a wish, which is shown through the dream, and a process that denies the wish being fulfilled. He says that all dreams are essentially “wish fulfillment”. Many have argued against this theory as it requires a sexual interpretation of one’s dreams, whereas Freud always labeled it as the “royal road to the unconscious”. A majority of the dreams discussed in the book are not just Freud’s own dreams, but also those of his patients. The Interpretation of Dreams attempts to answer the question why we dream and what it means in the larger context of our lives. The book was revised eight times before being published in 1899.

The Invisible Man

“One of Greek mythology’s oldest epic poems, the Odyssey follows one of Greek mythology’s cheekiest, wiliest heroes, Odysseus, the King of Ithaca – also known as Ulysses – and his journey back from Troy after the Trojan War. The book begins with the perspective of his son, Telemachus, and wife, Penelope, who assume him dead when he doesn’t return for a long time. When Penelope is hounded by suitors, Telemachus is visited by the goddess of wisdom, Athena. As a result, he decides to set out to find his father. Odysseus’s journey home, on the other hand, is fraught with dangers including sea sirens, nymphs, and monsters. However, being the intelligent and cunning man that he is, Odysseus deftly navigates through all of these hindrances in his quest to get home.
The Odyssey was written in Homeric Greek and is divided into 24 books, but has considerably fewer lines than the Illiad. It comprises more than 12,000 lines of poetry, and is still a formidable epic that explores various themes, including journeys, homecoming, and friendship.
Many translations of this epic poem have been made over the years but Samuel Butler’s prose translation in English gives it a twist when he makes the argument that the Odyssey was written by a woman, which he discusses in detail in his other work, The Authoress of Odyssey. Written in the late 17th century, these two works reflect Butler’s belief that the rules that dictate poetry and prose are different and a translator has to keep these in mind if they have to retain the essence of the original work.
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The annual lunch of the IPS Officers’ Wives’ Association on Valentine’s Day, 2016. Perhaps the most powerful single group of two hundred women are enjoying their mid-winter meal on a top floor restaurant in the heart of New Delhi, when suddenly they are taken hostage by terrorists, and the floor wired with explosives…
Their husbands, the cream of Police force, huddle in the lobby and the cat-and-mouse game of strategies begins…
As hours tick by and the situation looks hopeless, the terrorists seem to be in total command, and it appears they have another agenda wrapped inside the contours of yet another…
What follows is a series of twists, as whites and blacks become indistinct…

“Helen Keller wrote her autobiography, The Story of My Life, while she was still studying in Radcliffe College. It was first published in 1902 in instalments in the Ladies’ Home Journal before being published as a book in 1903. Widely considered to be one of the most inspiring life accounts ever written, it details Helen’s life as a blind, deaf, and mute person up to the age of 22. Helen Keller’s teacher and companion, Anne Sullivan, played a central role in her life, right from moving her away from home to teaching her the Tadoma method of communication. Anne Sullivan’s actions towards Helen went a long way in transforming the way she lived her life and interacted with the world.
A story of courage and dedication, The Story of My Life is filled with endearing moments from Helen’s life journey, from her thoughts of when she first learnt to speak and her time at Radcliffe College to her dynamics with Anne Sullivan. The book remains an inspiration unto itself and has been adapted into multiple plays and movies across the world.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson was published in 1886 and became an instant classic. The novel is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll and the evil Mr. Edward Hyde. This new edition of Stevenson’s most famous work includes three additional short stories, two short essays, and extracts from contemporary writing on psychological disorders. This science fiction thriller has permeated the English language as the term “Jekyll and Hyde” became synonymous with dual personality. Though the book had initially been published as a “shilling shocker’, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde brought an immediate success and became one of Stevenson’s best-selling works.

“Published posthumously in 1924 by Kafka’s friend, Max Trod, after his death, The Trial is a criticism of a totalitarian form of government, which traps an individual into systems of oppression and inhibits them from any means of escape. The protagonist of the story, Josef K, is accused of a crime that he didn’t commit. The absurdity of the entire ordeal, however, is that the nature of the crime is never revealed to him or to us, the readers. The more Josef K ventures into systems of authority and ‘justice’, to prove his innocence, the more he becomes entangled in the procedural complexities of the court and the justice system. His attempt to prove his innocence only implicates him further and the increasing uncertainty of his fate propels him towards making misguided choices.
Kafka’s works, more often than not, portray a bleak, hopeless world where a just society and governance is more a matter of imagination than reality. He compels his readers to question the monotony of the systems around them as well as structures of authority. Kafka’s The Trial represents a solemn yet surreal world where an individual is isolated; his freedom and his rights stifled; and any ‘trial’ that occurs is simply a farce wherein different structures of authority push an individual into an inescapable maze.
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About Tilottama:-
This is a new initiative by Hemonter Postman & Swopno Uran (A Magazine Division by Fav Bukz Publications – A unit of Favzon Private Limited).

There are plenty of literature sections in this magazine- Novel, Novella, Stories, Short Stories, Poems, Dramas, Travelogue, Essay, Comics- Cartoons, Reviews, Special Articles etc. This is a platform where each and every author may connect with all its reader. We are a large team- Author, Illustrator, Reader & Core Team Members Group.

We are publishing & distributing this Yearly Magazine “Tilottama” from Bangalore, India location. & This may be the First Sharodiya Magazine which will be launched in print version as well as electronics version- app version.

We are going to distribute the 10% of our total profit earnings to the needy- not so well authors family to help them.