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tolstoy’s essay: PDF: https://archive.org/download/tolstoyonshakes02tolsgoog/tolstoyonshakes02tolsgoog.pdf online read: http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/shakespeare-tolstoy/1/ orwell’s rebuttal: lear, tolstoy and the fool http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lear/english/e_ltf   ======== https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/adventures-in-old-age/200912/battle-the-titans-tolstoy-disses-shakespeare http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/tolstoy-calls-shakespeare-an-insignificant-inartistic-writer.html http://blogs.bl.uk/english-and-drama/2016/06/in-defence-of-shakespeare-tolstoy-and-orwell.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/11/tolstoy-thought-chekhov-worse-than-shakespeare

etymology again: cuff cuff2 [kuhf]  verb (used with object) 1. to strike with the open hand; beat; buffet. noun 2. a blow …

teri wafa se kya ho talafi ke dahr meiN tere siwaa bhi ham pey bahut se sitam huwe likhtey rahe junuN ki …

list of edible plants and things in indian languages here.

i was reading an Urdu book and i read a rather common word; i was curious whether this was the origin of …

apparently, there are only three words that end with -ngry.  two are known and the challenge is to find the third.  i …

dr.faruqi says that ghalib did not borrow from older poets: Rather, on a number of occasions Mir has even directly translated from …