Ismat Chughtai, a raging communist way ahead of her time, penned down Lihaaf, originally in Urdu, in the year 1942, while she was in...

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Cover image found on Amazon.com In Cold Blood (1996) is Truman Capote’s "nonfiction" novel, based on and depicting the murders of four...

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To the boy with a panic disorder, who worries too much about the illness itself, it’s okay. In a world that favours your gender in all...

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There’s roughly 6,500 languages spoken on planet Earth. There are 195 countries in which almost all of those languages can be found....