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The Daily News invited readers to submit stories and poems about Christmas traditions that are special to them.

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Men, you know, they write women off. I have been tagged as “volatile” and having “mood swings” but men and the enablers of patriarchy have always used those terms for women just trying to do their job ...

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

When the Mughals were ruling North India (1600-1800), the Nayaka (Telugu) rulers of Peninsular South India (Tamil and Kannada speaking regions) gave us a litera ...

At a time when even a mildly worded tweet can spark outrage, a parallel universe exists inside comedy clubs: one where people ...

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