"In recent years, we've seen the world's imagination captured by things we Indians take for granted, " says Satya Saran, editor of Femina, the leading English-language women's magazine in the country.

CNN: Once Again, With Attitude

Born the son of a stern headmaster in the northern state of Kedah in 1925, young Mahathir was a hardworking student, the winner year after year of the English prize and editor of the school magazine.

CNN: Mahathir Mohamad

Extracts from "Metro" were first published in English by Words Without Borders, an online magazine for international literature, in 2008.

CNN: Egypt's banned graphic novel to be published in English

Mr Menand, a frequent magazine writer as well as a professor of English, zestfully adopts the contemporary biographical practice of not treating thinkers as disembodied intelligences.

ECONOMIST: How the pragmatists changed the way Americans thought

Bethan Marshall, a senior lecturer in English education at King's College London told the magazine the literary merit of picture books was often underestimated, comparing The Very Hungry Caterpillar favourably with another literary hit, Yann Martel's Life of Pi.

BBC: Pride and Prejudice tops teachers' favourite 100 books

The topic of greatest attention in social media last week, by contrast, was a BBC Magazine story about a 13-year-old English kid who gave up his iPod for a week to try an original model of a Sony Walkman, according to Pew.

FORBES: Journalism

You only need to read the words that Terry Butcher, the English central defender, used to describe the famous goal from Diego in Mexico 86 to the magazine FourFourTwo.

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