Affan Shikoh

B.A. (Hons.) English, Aligarh Muslim University.

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Kashmiris demand for azadi ( freedom )

Last night I had a long talk on whatsapp...

Hallmark of a Civilised Society

India is a highly diverse and pluralistic society. To...

Wafaadaari mein sheikh-o-barhaman ki aazmaish hai

The recent spate of resignations of prominent figures in...

Sarbas khaaye bhog kar naana, samar bhumi bhay ballabh praana

These lines in Ramcharitmanas said by Ravan to Kumbhakarna...

Difference between nazm and ghazal in Urdu poetry

A friend of mine recently mailed me this poem...

I am with you Captain, all the way

The most important development taking place in the Indian...

The Problematic Politics of Harry Potter

If you were born in the late ‘90s or the early 2000s, you were born into a decade where either the Harry Potter books...

Art and the Autobiographical – Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions and James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist in Perspective

While composing any kind of art, be it painting, performance, or literary work, a creator lends a part of themselves onto the artwork; in...