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Dubliners

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Design, the Indian context: Learning the historical rationale of the Indian design idiom

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Soumitro’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir

Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir by Mark Morton

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Punk rock music carried the message that we were all a little twisted. And sometimes it felt good to shout about it.

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“I never aimed to give you a talisman, an empty vessel to flood with whatever longing, dread, or sorrow happened to be the day’s mood. I wrote it because I had something to say to you.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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“That’s my depression talking. It’s not “me.” 89. As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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“How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted,”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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“Stories have power if we use them well.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

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“I have sometimes found myself wondering if the same principle applies in other realms— if seeing a particularly astonishing shade of blue, for example, or letting a particularly potent person inside you, could alter you irrevocably, just to have seen or felt it. In which case, how does one know when, or how, to refuse? How to recover?”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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