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Ronny Noor

The writer is an English professor and educator at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA.

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Poetry / Infraction

12 February 2021
The police flagged down our driver, who ran a red light on the flyover one cloudy December afternoon. “Didn’t you see the STOP sign?” one of them yelled, as soon as the driver rolled down the window.
12 February 2021
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The Noble Truth

13 December 2019
Leaders big and small set no good
13 December 2019
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Poetry / Not Like This

22 March 2019
The wise their moments spare will spend
22 March 2019
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Poetry / Their Songs

14 December 2018
I know a craven Mir Jafar
14 December 2018
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Poetry / FARAAZ

29 June 2018
From Paradise gazing, we saw green on your face
29 June 2018
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A Poem to Celebrate the Mother's Day / Mother

11 May 2018
None can fathom
11 May 2018
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

A Life Truly Worth Living

9 March 2018
Say this, don't say that.
9 March 2018
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Poetry / Enduring Life

2 March 2018
racing ahead
2 March 2018
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The Promise of 1971

His ears attuned to the husky whisper
16 December 2017

Economics, not religion

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to The Times of India (March 27, 2016), claimed during a Sunday Times interview
4 May 2016

The Teacher and the Preacher: Lessons of History

Those who are involved in these jihad-inspired terrorist activities are no different from the Pakistani collaborators during the Liberation War in 1971. They wish to turn us again into a subjugated people who will not be able to think for themselves but do the bidding of others.
15 March 2016

The Education Antidote to Violence

In an article titled “The Education Antidote to Radicalisation,” published on December 30, 2015 in The Daily Star, former British Prime Minister...
7 February 2016
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