Tag: Omar Khayyam

Google celebrates 971st birthday of Omar Khayyam

In the "History of Western Philosophy", Bertrand Russell remarked that Omar Khyyam was the only man known to him who was both a poet and mathematician.

May 18, 2019

Omar Khayyam at Jaipur Literature Festival

The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, is perhaps the greatest repository of the manuscripts of the Rubaiyat

February 14, 2019

The chessmaster

Chess is one game that has a long history, along with its associated variations, one of which led to the disrobing of Draupadi and the Mahabharata war. In the 11th century, Omar Khayyam wrote: ” ‘Tis all a Chequreboard of Nights and Days/ Where Destiny with Men for pieces plays/ Hither and thither mates and...

July 23, 2018

A comic salute to Omar Khayyam: The Rubaiyat and its parodies

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, even in literature, then what about parody? We can call it ingenious imitation though deft adaptation or skillful improvisation would be more apt, and it can either mock the original but even exalt it by proving its relevance in a different time and space. As a raft...

October 26, 2017