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MANY SHADES OF SAFFRON : Decoding 100 Years of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

by Chandrachur Ghose

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"I am curious if he would continue using communism throughout or it was just a very ill placed beginning of the book.
If former, I wonder what the narrative he wants to set.
He did use simple clear words for RSS whereas shrouded Communism in fractions, abstract words etc." — Nov 07, 2025 03:35AM

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by László Krasznahorkai

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"The second part ties this chapter with the first one. What surprised me is how different the personality of Petrina and Irimias were in the outside world compared to the office. Here, they are prone to anger, prone to violent threats. Also, finally these people are the people who the villagers were talking about. I also was surprised the disdain they felt towards the villagers." — Oct 28, 2025 12:26PM

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Gandhi Before India

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American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard

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There was one little child, probably three years old, just big enough to walk through the sand. The Indians had gone ahead, and this little child was behind following after them. The little fellow was perfectly naked, travelling on the ...more

A holocaust we have all failed. I completely agree to the writer's point of view that sometimes, the magnitude of the massacre is so great that we lose the human touch and only think of it in terms of numbers. How that very thought robs the tragedy of its justice.

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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“For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“Given the shortage of women in California during these early years of white settlement, “a likely young girl” might cost almost double that of a boy, because, as the Marysville Appeal phrased it, girls served the double duty “of labor and of lust.”
― David E. Stannard, American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World

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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: entrepreneurship, inspirational, leadership

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“Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That’s the rule. It can never be exactly the same.”
― Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

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“What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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