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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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Pandeymonium: Piyush Pandey On Advertising

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Conversations with Mani Ratnam

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I too belong to Katihar and felt immensely insulted when the author in his own words termed it as a "Backward" place, just because he has become in his own mind "successful" in a foreign land. I will say only this, it only comes from deep seeded infe ...more
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Never judge a book by its cover.
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There is no reason thar you cannot fall in love with a poet who has already passed away.
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“So immutably does a human being surrender to the mist of the Motherland! Just as a tooth will not stop aching until the nerve is killed, so is it with us; we shall probably not stop responding to the call of the the Motherland until we swallow arsenic.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Архипелаг ГУЛАГ: 1918-1956: опыт художественного исследования

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