The Silence (The Twilight Zone) The Silence (The Twilight Zone) "The Silence" is episode 61 of the American television anthology series "The Twilight Zone". The plot of this episode was based in part on Anton Chekhov's "The Bet". It originally aired on April 28, 1961 on CBS, and was the first of only four "Twilight Zone" episodes (the others being season three's "The Shelter", season two's "Dust" and season five's "The Jeopardy Room") to feature a story without any supernatural or science fiction elements. It does, however, contain one of the series' signature twist endings. Colonel Archie Taylor, a gruff aristocrat, has difficulty enjoying his
Twilight in Delhi Twilight in Delhi Twilight in Delhi is Ahmed Ali's first novel, originally published in English by the Hogarth Press in Britain in 1940. The novel addresses India's changing social, political, and cultural climate following colonialism. The novel is set around 1911 to 1919 in Delhi. Ahmed Ali has vividly drawn the picture of old Delhi and its Muslim inhabitants of that era. He depicts the themes of disintegration, degeneration, alienation, gender and social conflicts, nostalgia, the downfall of the Mughal emperors, and the effects of colonialism and imperialism on Indian Muslims in Delhi. The novel is shot through with rich