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Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.


Pawan Mishra

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His first words to me— not a lie at a...
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I ...
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SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
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SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
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"You could try rubbing ...
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Time for birth, time for death.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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PAWAN MISHRA As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.
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PAWAN MISHRA I may just be on the outskirts of being okay.
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PAWAN MISHRA The coins were completely unprepared for this and were sadly deceived by their own inertia.
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PAWAN MISHRA Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.
PAWAN MISHRA Many a times a huge problem gets solved with a trivial move.
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PANKAJ MISHRA The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary op...
PANKAJ MISHRA In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was s...
PANKAJ MISHRA A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignor...
PANKAJ MISHRA It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Holl...
PANKAJ MISHRA Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-...
PANKAJ MISHRA Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to prov...
PANKAJ MISHRA Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only re...
PANKAJ MISHRA Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to ...
PANKAJ MISHRA It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the ju...
PANKAJ MISHRA Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours ...
PANKAJ MISHRA As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one s...
PANKAJ MISHRA As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a tru...
PANKAJ MISHRA Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide ...
PANKAJ MISHRA Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules
ANAMIKA MISHRA Preach little, Pray more;
But Pray for all, not for your own satisfaction;
MISHRA ANKIT While four people were killed on the spot, five died in hospital.
BINAYTOSH MISHRA The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. I...
PANKAJ MISHRA In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equalit...
PANKAJ MISHRA Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects...
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