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It stood in a damp patch of soil, squat. forlorn, mostly weary. The small branches had been snapped off and now tiny mounds of gnarled bark waved their stumpy fists in the air in mute rage. Beneath the ground was a jagged edge where the axe had spliced through, shredding the pith into a million...

"Truth is a pathless land. Truth, being limitless cannot be organised, nor should any organisation be formed to lead people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organise a belief. I have now decided to disband - The Order of the Star...

Why has Northern California become so important, and why does it hold so much weight in today's world? Because the culture of highly profitable start-ups brimming in this region has led to creating the behemoth – the Silicon Valley. Today, Start-ups are being recognised as important engines...

സിറിയ, തുര്‍ക്കി, കാനഡ, ഈജിപ്ത്, ശ്രീലങ്ക, ഇന്ത്യ, ദുബായ് എന്നീ വിവിധ ദേശങ്ങളിലെ മനുഷ്യാവസ്ഥകളെ...

Shashi Tharoor is a popular name in Indian politics. The world knows him as a successful diplomat, a popular leader, a story writer, a popular columnist, a controversial twitterati and a brilliant speaker. Tharoor has written many books and novels such as Reasons of State, Riot, Nehru: The...

"There is a world that huddles beneath the feet of every New Yorker. A subterranean realm of acrid grey, steamy lie and greasy fumes. In this devil basement, dank steel caterpillars, christened with molten metal alphabets on their deadpan foreheads, prowl hither and thither." Listen to "Satyr...

It hangs there in the cupboard. Breathing in through its many pores the combined fragrance of mothballs and air-fresheners, and the mustiness of damp. A muddy grey, it falls from the outstretched arms of the hanger, the skin of a beast from which the soul has fled. Limp, lifeless and deceptively...

Along with keeping your home and your body clean, you also have to think about keeping the sexual act clean. Some basic hygienic practices must be followed before, during, and after sex. Let's find out which ones...

"Someone - may be Arun - had drawn a pink heart on a yellow post-it and stuck in on her dashboard. Ila smiled at the pink heart and crumpled in into a ball. If only, she thought ruefully. She had his love and loyalty; as for his body, it was in offer for the pretty young boys he picked up every...

ജീവിതത്തിലെ പരുക്കന് യാഥാര്ത്ഥ്യങ്ങളും വിശ്വാസങ്ങളും ഐതിഹ്യങ്ങളുമെല്ലാം ഇഴചേര്ന്ന ഒരു അപൂർവസൃഷ്ടി...

Few agricultural commodities have influenced world history as dramatically as the humble cotton. And not some distant, unrecognisable antiquity, but times far closer to the present. Less than two centuries ago, these feathery balls nearly split America into two, triggered a civil war, propelled...

"The Thanksgiving turkey lay on its back in the manner of all roast turkeys. A sumo wrestler pushed to the ground, rotund legs with enormous thighs staring helplessly at the heavens. The breasts, plump and proud with many days of force-feeding, glistened. The neck that cackled, gobbled and...

"Grammar books are deceptive. Just open your mind and walk through the pages of one. You will be surprised at what you stumble across." Listen to "The heart of a gerund" written and narrated by Anita Nair, only on Storytel...

"The new man will be a mystic, a poet, a scientist, all together. He will not look at life through old rotten divisions. He will be a mystic, because he will feel the presence of god. He will be a poet, because he will celebrate the presence of god. And he will be a scientist, because he will...

Chanakya was the first thinker of the ancient times who nurtured the sense of nationalism and inculcated in the minds of the people that they owed their basic allegiance to the Rajya (State of Nation) and not to the Dharma. In contradistinction to the earlier concept he made the State paramount...

Chanakya was the first thinker of the ancient times who nurtured the sense of nationalism and inculcated in the minds of the people that they owed their basic allegiance to the Rajya (State of Nation) and not to the Dharma. In contradistinction to the earlier concept he made the State paramount...

കഴിഞ്ഞ മൂന്ന് ദശകങ്ങളിലായി ഇരുപതിലധികം രാജ്യങ്ങളിൽ ജോലി സംബന്ധമായി എഴുത്തുകാരൻ പോവുകയുണ്ടായി. വിവിധ സ്ഥാപനങ്ങളുടെ ഭരണസമിതികൾക്ക് വിദഗ്ദോപദേശകനായും....

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