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Some Hinglish Gyaan by Khushwant Singh
Hinglish involves a hybrid mixing of Hindi and English within conversations, individual sentences and even words. This unique synthesis has taken not just years or decades, but centuries of effort, including 200 years of colonisation. Now the result is here. So many Indians who are aglicised wogs switch from Hindi to English, interspersing each with… Read more
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Pride and Prejudice: Education on Love
Jane Austen is admired for portraying a world of elegant houses, dances, servants and fashionable young men driving barouches. But her own vision of her task was radically different. She was an ambitious — and stern — moralist. She was acutely conscious of human failings and she had a deep desire to make people nicer:… Read more
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How Do Prayers Work?
How do prayers work? How can they? It hurts the logical mind to even consider such a possibility, that is, of a psychological state manifesting into reality. Yet, this is exactly what Neville Goddard tried to do in his book Prayer: The Art of Believing. Let’s understand his arguments. For a long time human beings… Read more
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Meghna Pant and the Art of Getting Published in India
How to get published in India? It’s a question you often get asked if you’ve got anything to do with publishing industry, and yet, there’s never a clear answer. However, this became somewhat easy after I read Meghna Pant’s How to Get Published in India back in 2020. Since then, every time someone has asked… Read more
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7 Sentences That Can Destroy Your Worldview
Words don’t have mass, nor do they occupy any space — and yet, they matter. They matter because when they are string together and turned into sentences, the ideas that emerge from there can make or break the world. Let’s take a look at seven such powerful sentences that are capable of destroying one’s worldview,… Read more
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5 Times Intellectuals Went Horribly Wrong
Intellect is not wisdom. Therefore, we should not be surprised when an intellectual says something profoundly unwise. While we owe a lot of human progress to all the intellectuals who came before us, it would not be unfair to say that sometimes they have gone horribly wrong. Let’s talk about five such instances when intellectuals… Read more
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