“And over the village slipped the days, passing into the nights; the weeks flowed by, the months crept on, the wind howled, and, glassified with an autumnal, translucent, greenish-azure, the Don flowed tranquilly down to the sea.” —And Quiet Flows
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I apologise that in opening this subject I am going to have to pass through my own self. You will also forgive me because I too am just a unit of this vast mankind; that is why to understand everything
Rajinder Singh Bedi is universally regarded as one of the four greatest Urdu fiction writers in the second half of the 20th century. He completes this hallowed quartet along with his contemporaries Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chander and Ismat Chughtai.
In 1986, the Italian philosopher Umberto Eco had this to say about Disneyland: “An allegory of the consumer society, a place of absolute iconism, Disneyland is also a place of total passivity.” In the same essay, he discussed at length
Is baar danga bahut bada tha Khoob hui thi khoon ki baarish Agle saal achchhi hogi fasal Matdaan ki (This time the riot was very big There was a heavy rain of blood Next year, there will be an
“Nothing can more efficiently destroy a person, fizzle their mind, evaporate their future, eliminate their potential or destroy society like pornography…It is worse than Hitler, worse than AIDS, cancer or any other epidemic. It is more catastrophic than nuclear
Growing up in an academic family, it was inevitable that I would be exposed to shelves full of books from a very early age. The supply of books and children’s magazines was also far more regular than that of new
When was the last time a government with an absolute majority withdrew an executive order within a week of its issue? That, my friend, is the power of porn! The varied demographic structure of India has always evoked difference of
On 3 August 2015, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology asked the Department of Telecom to notify Internet service providers to block access to 857 URLs on the grounds of decency and morality, as stated in Article 19(2) of