To Pay Thanks To God After 30 days of self-control comes the day to rejoice, to pay thanks to God and to help the poor, and spread the message of brotherhood to the world. All over the world the Muslims observe fasting, prayers, and the control of five senses during the pious month of Ramadan …
Historic Structures – The Prague School Project by F. W. Galan Background Basis and Inference I would like to first talk a little bit about the linguistic circle of Prague, which is also called the linguistic school of thought of Prague. It was an influential group of literary critics and linguists who came together in …
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The story “The Duchess and The Jeweler” demonstrates the tussle between the rational and emotional forces in the mind of man. Whenever the emotional forces burst out, they take away everything, and man’s experience and reason cannot withstand them. It also depicts that the high ups are coming down facing moral decadence, and the commoners …
The story “The Happy Prince” is a fairy tale that combines two worlds: the world of the Happy Prince above and the real world below. The story is also a contrast between the temporary happiness sought by the prince and the real happiness achieved by the prince by helping the needy and the poor. The …
A dominant view among several writers in Pakistan has been that the majority Muslim population of Pakistan and Bangladesh are privileged to hold important positions in civil/military bureaucracy, judiciary, and parliament, while Muslim children have the choice to attend centers of learning right from schools to colleges and universities vis-à-vis India. Read more about Muslims …
The poem, “Patriot into Traitor” by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue. It is about the political ups and downs in the life of a political person in underdeveloped countries. In the world of politics, a person who is acclaimed to be a hero today may turn to be zero the next day. In the …
All glory to nature for gifting magical beauty to the land of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB). GB provides a complex cultural and geographical mosaic for travelers from around the globe, accentuated by topographical complexity, seasonal changes, and ethnic heterogeneity. GB has a meager population of 1.4 million but, oddly, people with special pronunciation understand 10 different languages …
The writer differentiates between hosts and guests humorously and points out their merits and demerits in the essay, “Hosts and Guests”. He says that the ancient Romans did not make any difference between hosts and guests. For them, a host and a guest were the same things, but actually, they are different. The difference between …
There was a time in human history when people valued their ideas and beliefs more than their personal experiences. Whether they were followers of Moses or followers of Marx, they were not only guided by their ideas and beliefs individually and collectively. But also tested their actions on the basis of these ideas and beliefs. …
Albert Camus died at the age of 47 in a car accident in France, in The Plague, when an enthusiastic young man dies in an epidemic, says an old character. “Those who are good go away, that’s how life is.” The saying of the old character in the plague is very true to the death …
