[O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), a well-acclaimed American short story writer. There is always an element of surprise at the end of his stories.] THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were […]
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A 23-Year-Old Slave African-American Girl When in 2020 a free African American citizen says, ‘I can’t breathe’ and becomes prey to racial hatred and police atrocity and dies, it is incredible to even think that the would-be first American President would fail in his words of adulation for a slave black poetess of 23 only,
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The Right Time To Die The other day I went to attend a reception party. It was of a colleague’s son’s marriage. So many colleagues there hopping party to party–it was heavy ‘lagan’ that day. The conversation over vegetable soup (that colleague is strictly, genetically & genealogically VEGETARIAN) was going on. Other colleagues were religiously
Why A Tryst With Ker? Why not a tryst with Venus, the love goddess- why a tryst with Ker, the female demon of death? But the data show that globally every year almost 800000 people commit suicide. Everyone has to enter the valley of death, death, the leveler is irrevocable still it seems unbelievable that anyone
music in our soul If we go musical, suddenly from some unseen corner will enter the Beethoven music in our soul. The history of music till date will be incomplete if we scrap the music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) out of it. Ludwig van Beethoven, a music prodigy, a genius, a legend, who roamed
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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
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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
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