Word of the Day
The country was still marked by extremes of wealth and poverty, and by myriad social conflicts. -- "India: Democracy's dance", BBC News, 4 March 2009
Soon enough night brought a liquid, comforting blackness over dusk; stars strode out; the mogra flowers below their balcony sent up loops of their fragrance. -- Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk, Arcade Publishing, 2004