300 years on, Gulliver's Travels continues to find a place in schoolbags and bookshelves

By Nayanika Samanta Kolkata, Oct 28 (UNI) Three hundred years after Anglo Irish satirist and clergyman Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels first appeared in print, the book continues to capture the imagination of schoolchildren in Kolkata, even as its appeal to adult readers is largely linked to academic interest or a desire to introduce the next generation to a literary classic. Published in 1726, the novel chronicles Lemuel Gulliver's voyages to unfamiliar lands, where he encounters societies that challenge his understanding of the world. While younger readers are often drawn to its fictional adventures, the book's underlying critique of politics, power…