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Mango Mania
latitude.blogs.nytimes.com
[New York Times (blog)] - Mirza Ghalib, the foremost Urdu-language poet of the Mughal era, was an avid mango eater who measured his health and joie de vivre by the number of mangoes he was able to consume. Nothing (except perhaps cricket) will stir Pakistani nationalism more
Anti-plastic war: Make them pay, stop the menace
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
[Times of India] - Take the case of Malavika Chatterjee, a retired banker, who had come to shop for pasta sauce at a departmental store on Mirza Ghalib Street. "Earlier I would take a plastic carry bag from the store even for such small items. But now I bring my own bag.
Testing faith with price hikes
dawn.com
[DAWN.com] - Some traders are also involved in creating artificial shortages, so that poorer quality items are sold on the official rates while the better quality is sold at exorbitant prices. The situation makes one recall a famous couplet of Mirza Ghalib: “Jis
No time for Trotsky
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
[Times of India] - Marx, Tolstoy and Trotsky sit cheek-by-jowl with Mirza Ghalib and Makhdoom Mohiuddin inside the glass cases on the wall. But the two sets of people at the long table in the hall evidently have other priorities—young schoolboys are poring over their
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