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Urdu, once the language of proud nawabs and mesmerizing poetic wordplay with its impeccable artistic imagination, is now a dying language. Universities and monuments are nothing but cemeteries and ruined remains of a once glorious past. "Urdu may be dying, and In Custody by Anita Desai may in part be an unheard lament for that death," said Salman Rushdie in an introduction for one of the editions of In Custody. This is such a beautiful piece of work by Desai. Intricately woven storyline and character development. The final pages show, only in limited words, the patriarchal conditioning of the men in this story. Though in limited space, that theme of patriarchy was impactful. It offers a type of twist in its theme, not in the plot. This book felt like an old ghazal which I could understand the meaning of. It depicts the beauty of the Urdu language effortlessly. The characters show their deep remorse over their language being forgott en as years pass by. Urdu poets and their ad...

  Quichotte by Salman Rushdie is the type of book that I loved so much that I wanted to savor every moment by reading it slowly but also devouring it as fast as possible because of the beautifully evolving story. The story follows a person named Ismail, who is addicted to watching too many TV shows. He creates his alter ego Quichotte, and goes on a road trip through America to make a famous TV show host fall in love with him. Here Salman Rushdie takes a unique way of storytelling, wherein in the second chapter of the book he introduces the author who is writing the story of Quichotte (Ismail), it is like fiction inside another fiction. This brings us to the genre of this book – a Metafiction. The life of the author is the reflection of the story of Quichotte. At a certain point in the book, the reality of the author’s life gets intertwined with the fiction of Quichotte’s story, perplexing the reader with Rushdie’s effortless storytelling. Quichotte is a brilliantly funny work. ...

  THE LAST EDEN   The house that the old couple has resided in for almost half a century now is in the middle of a small city. There have been regular changes happening around that house, but that house has remained the same for as long as time can remember. The house is rather small compared to all those changes. But their land had enough space for a beautiful garden with lots of flowers and a small farming setup. It even had a small pond. The house was once filled with the sound of their two children - who are now settled in America with their family. Now it is enjoying its moment of retirement with the silence of these two old pairs who are in a marital stage where the other partner can guess what she or he is going to say. They lived and talked long enough, that there wasn’t much for them to do or say other than go by their daily life. Among other chores, their daily routine includes, watering the plants, and feeding the birds, dogs, and cats, that wander around their ...

  Jacob is an insurance agent and lives alone in a 1bhk apartment, so it was a bit strange to see a dead man hanging down from his bedroom's ceiling fan. Years of working in a job that he hated had made him feel no emotions at all, maybe that's why he was not scared or felt anything when he saw a 7-foot-tall man with a dark complexion hanging dead in his bedroom. The Deadman was so tall and well-built that his feet almost touched the ground, Jacob wondered how he managed to hang himself when his feet were just a few inches away from the floor, The Deadman was dark as night and strangely beautiful, Jacob could not help but admire his physique, he approached him slowly, and reached out his hand to touch him, a sharp pain was felt on his fingers when he laid them on his back. It was scorching hot. Jacob was confused about what to do now, usually, he takes a bath right after coming back from work. His body and mind wouldn't work accordingly unless he had his nighttime cold ba...

When I was in the 4th grade, the first time I heard the name, "Dr. B.R Ambedkar", I felt a connection to that name. My initials are also B.R., so that 9-year-old boy did not have to put much effort into memorizing that name for his social science class tests. This was probably the reason why when I was in 6th grade and the teacher asked the class who drafted the Constitution, I was the first to raise my hand and shout out the answer. Everyone applauded, I am not the type of student who gets applauded in class, so this event has held a place in my heart, and so does the name Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. That was the only connection I felt with Ambedkar, that we share the same initials, so for nearly ten years it remained like that. I, like most of the young students, was aware that Ambedkar was the person who drafted the constitution and did something against caste not knowing exactly what he did for that, and what he stood for. It took me more than ten years to know more about Ambedkar...

Thangalan 2024 Thangalan is the misunderstood elder son of Pa. Ranjith’s filmography. This movie does have the capability to become a timeless epic of this generation. The idea of this movie is so grand that it needs a bigger canvas to showcase its strength. As a director, Pa.Ranjith is an eminent storyteller. His strength in movies is his narration. Using this strength to focus on less focused stories of our roots has earned him the title of a political artist. The reason for the misunderstanding of Thangalan comes because of the gap in the storytelling of Indian history. Let us consider the Hollywood movie “The black panther” to bring in a brief comparison. However, it is clear that both these movies are not something to be compared with. One is a superhero flick, the other is historical fiction, and they both have one thing in common, “Oppression” A still from "Black Panther" 2018 In the Hollywood movie “The black panther”, the character Killmonger’s anger towards the ou...