Category: Essays

A young English man by the name of Leonard Marnham, an employee of the Post Office, is assigned to a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin. They were tunnelling underground to tap the Russian telephone lines to Moscow. This of course had to be kept a secret for as…

Isn’t life in general just a lot of choices pieced together? Every choice we make can have an influence on our lives later on. Especially when growing up it can be difficult to know if you’re making the right decisions and know in what direction you should go and what…

The Other Side of Silence voices some dark truths about the history of the Partition of the Punjab Province and reveals some striking facts, kept in a shroud of silence. It highlights how men were convinced that though they could protect themselves, women were somehow incapable of doing so. To…

Abdul-Rahman Munif is a prolific writer whose large output displays a high degree of originality and a remarkable variety of theme and structure, although nearly all his novels have several features in common, in particular the author’s passionate concern for the freedom of the individual vis-a-vis an oppressive totalitarian regime…

Introduction As the nineteenth century was coming to an end and was in the threshold of entering the twentieth century, the image or the picture that London gave with its opium den was something which was dark, strange, filthy and mysterious which was visited by travellers who entered London through…

John Milton was born, in London, England on December 9th. He was alive during the Restoration Era of King Charles II, that’s when he decided to begin to write Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost which follows/talks about Satan’s impulses/itch of Adam and Eve and their journey from the Garden of Eden…

Growing up can be very tough, and it is not always easy. You have to go your own way sometimes, and establish your own personality. Because one day you when you grow up, you would not be the person, you are if it was not for your past. Growing up…