After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.


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Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance.
PAWAN MISHRA
The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach.
PAWAN MISHRA
Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in the matters of heart, parents in this part of the world hadn...
PAWAN MISHRA
If you really want to talk to the big boss now, make sure you leave your balls here with me, for he ...
PAWAN MISHRA
…golf was no longer the most interesting sport to the corporate czars because they found playing w...
PAWAN MISHRA
Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Or ...
PAWAN MISHRA
A good joke doesn’t necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one’s own...
PAWAN MISHRA
Run wild and free like a waterfall
ANAMIKA MISHRA
He was one of those who are not born handsome, but develop charming features with age by continuousl...
PAWAN MISHRA
Clapping is easily the best example of self-amplification in the world. It sprouts from a single wha...
PAWAN MISHRA
Let me show you how beautiful life is,
Let me take away all your pain;
Let me rekindle you...
ANAMIKA MISHRA
It seems God has been practicing shooting troubles at me.
PAWAN MISHRA
Such delicacies are relationships.
PAWAN MISHRA
Is that the biggest favor your vocal cords have done to anyone this week?
PAWAN MISHRA
The terrifying fear of a crash had triggered the fight-or-flight response in the child, making him b...
PAWAN MISHRA
Relationships are the flavors of life.
PAWAN MISHRA
Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.
PAWAN MISHRA
One is often unconsciously surrounded by one’s own personal reality
PAWAN MISHRA
Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up.
PAWAN MISHRA
Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash ...
PAWAN MISHRA
While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily...
PAWAN MISHRA
Everyone’s mind has sort of a slum division—a flirtatious spot that doesn’t give a hoot about ...
PAWAN MISHRA
I will first see the background that led to him saying what he did tonight.
KALRAJ MISHRA
Kasturi was in the seventh month of gestating Coinman—a high-attention and high-priority stage of ...
PAWAN MISHRA
A true love is never defeated.
Even when in ashes,
it whirls and finds solace with air
SANDEEP KUMAR MISHRA