• Karthik Venkatesh

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“So well has All the Year Round gone that it was yesterday able to repay me, with five per cent interest, all the money I advanced for its establishment (paper, print etc. all paid, down to the last number), and yet to leave a good £500 balance at the banker's!”
Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology is a standard part of collegiate literature curricula, and often used by aspiring thespians as their audition monologue.
It’s just good sense to have an exit strategy. You need it. | WikiHow
Doubts have been raised over the sincerity and apoliticality of the apologies Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has been tendering of late. | PTI
By the time Balaji Baji Rao rose to power in the Maratha empire, the seat of Chhatrapati had been reduced to a sinecure under the British. | Wikipedia
The Taj Mahal, among the most enduring artifacts of Indian cultural history, has everyone make a point about it. Which is perfectly fine, so long as the opinion is not communally charged and divisive. | PTI
From Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh, through Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, to Bihar and Jharkhand, the notion that Hindi is spoken in all of these States is a fiction that every schoolboy has been fed for well-nigh half a century or even longer. | PTI
The construction of Isha Foundation's 112-foot-tall statue of Adiyogi is under legal scrutiny over allegations that it does not comply with required environmental and building norms.
"He looked like a ruffian. But, there was a certain languid air about him. He ambled along, it appeared. Kicking appeared to be beneath him. He caressed the ball. Kissed it goodbye." | AP