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‘Call me Ishmael’: How Herman Melville caught that elusive white whale – the perfect opening line
August 29, 2025 7:37 pm
Drawing a Line: In just three words, Melville sets the tone for the novel, after all “Call me Ishmael” is not quite the same as “My name is Ishmael.”
December 25, 1981, Forty Years Ago: Shahi To Visit India
December 24, 2021 11:38 pm
🔴 Pakistan was studying an Indian communication on a no-war pact offer handed over by ambassador Natwar Singh.
A prisoner’s letter to a lover begins: “These words may never reach you”
March 06, 2016 12:19 pm
Agha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without a Post Office is a Kashmiri poet’s lament for his home and his people. Why is it that his voice has still not reached Delhi?
Unfathomable greatness
October 18, 2014 9:06 am
An incurable romantic, poetry suited Begum Akhtar’s temperament.
God Sobs in His Arms
April 10, 2010 10:59 pm
Agha Shahid Alis poetry travels splendidly from the Himalayas to Houston,carrying grief and memories....
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