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Show, Don’t Tell. What’s That?
SHOW, DON’T TELL. If you are someone who writes stories, you are going to get this advice all the time. However, those who offer such advice don’t always care to explain what it really means. Does it mean that we narrate a story as is done in a play or movie-script? Not necessarily. Let’s see…
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The Story of First Philosophers
Nobody will ever be sure who started it. It could be that some poor genius invented philosophy and then fell into the abyss of unwritten history before he could announce himself to posterity. There is no reason to think that such a person, but then there wouldn’t be. Happily, there are at least records of…
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Imran Khan 1.0 and 2.0 According to William Dalrymple
There are a few matters where Imran Khan’s admirers and critics would disagree. But there’s one interesting aspect about Pakistan’s current prime minister which brings all of them on the same page. That is, they all would agree that they have seen two Imran Khans: a bachelor-playboy who was a cricket star and a fundamentalist…
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A Brief History of Islamic State – Khorasan
A lot has been happening in Afghanistan. USA withdrew its forces along with its NATO allies. Ashraf Ghani, the president (now ex-president) of Afghanistan, escaped the country. The Taliban captured almost all its territory and formed the new regime. The transfer of the power though, as you could tell from the sequence of events, has…
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Is There Any Point in Living?
Is there any point in living? Has living any meaning, any point, any worth? Perhaps that is the question you have been asking yourself. Especially when you’ve had some time on your hands. Is there some goal to be achieved by life, by living? Is there some place you will reach one day by living?…
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The Art of Travel
If our lives are dominated by a search happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest — in all its ardour and paradoxes — than our travels. Alain de Botton, in his book The Art of Travel, provides us a new way to look at travelling. After all, the…
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A Brief History of Punctuation
The difference between “let us eat Grandma” and “let us eat, Grandma” is huge. That’s what punctuation does: it saves lives. When you write, you set words in motion. Then they are on their own. Punctuation allows these words to tell their own story. Otherwise, if the reader had to guess each time she read…
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