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Rian Nejar

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Rian Nejar trained and worked as an engineer in India, lived briefly in the Middle East, and came to America in the early 90's. After a Master’s in electrical engineering in America, he worked as an instructor, engineer, entrepreneur, and technical/mainstream writer. Humbling and Humility (HnH) is his debut novel (excerpt). He lives in southwest United States, and writes on the social and human condition. Find him here: https://bsky.app/profile/riannejar.bs...

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Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
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Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy by David M. Malone
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The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
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Critical, heartfelt, very well written, and INCANDESCENT. A must-read.

Update 11/25/2025: Thomas King revealed recently that he has no indigenous roots in this BBC article.
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House of Huawei by Eva Dou
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Deeply engrossing.

Eva Dou intricately weaves Ren Zhengfei and his family's life in China into the history of the global technology powerhouse Huawei illustrating both resilience and fragility brilliantly.
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Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor
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Then I Am Myself the World by Christof Koch
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Very informative.

Great discussions regarding theories of consciousness (such as IIT - integrated information theory and GNWT - global neuronal workspace theory) that lay bare inadequacies of both. The author is beyond competent, but leaves the consc
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The Pursuit of Happiness by Jeffrey Rosen
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Neuro Fitness A Brain Surgeon's Secrets to Boost Performance ... by Rahul Jandail
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“We're naught but shadows and dust, suffused awhile with life and energy, forever dancing in the path to infinite disorder.”
Rian Nejar

“The two "I's" of intelligence are Insight and Imagination. Education offers no guarantee of either.”
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“Atheists are often asked to prove the nonexistence of a nonexistent thing, but religious hierarchies do far better: they abuse you with impunity, and profit from selling you many imaginary benefits of a panoply of nonexistent things.”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
Voltaire

“Affect not to set out your thoughts with curious neat language. Be neither a great talker, nor a great undertaker; be one who for his word or actions needs neither an oath, nor any man to be a witness.”
Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius

“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”
Pythagoras

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

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