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Sudeshna Bora
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"As much as I appreciate the information , the timeline and even his opinion. The extreme glorification of Bengal and bashing of INC is becoming a bit boring. Don't get me wrong, I truly believe Bengal played humongous role but to completely keep on nullifying INC role and super highlighting the negative (and then not acknowledging that the reaction to INC led to nationalism movement) is very annoying." — Jun 27, 2026 02:39PM
"As much as I appreciate the information , the timeline and even his opinion. The extreme glorification of Bengal and bashing of INC is becoming a bit boring. Don't get me wrong, I truly believe Bengal played humongous role but to completely keep on nullifying INC role and super highlighting the negative (and then not acknowledging that the reaction to INC led to nationalism movement) is very annoying." — Jun 27, 2026 02:39PM
Sudeshna Bora
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"Did I expect this?No.I wanted to know how she thinks.A woman who captures nuances so beautifully, does not dwell in grayness at all and maybe that makes me lonely.
She also seems mum about the gossip of her love interest.It is amusing to see how she makes her life,her brothers and her parents life open book but shrouds her lovers into secrecy(only the part related to her is shown).In this way, she is like me." — Jul 24, 2026 09:38AM
"Did I expect this?No.I wanted to know how she thinks.A woman who captures nuances so beautifully, does not dwell in grayness at all and maybe that makes me lonely.
She also seems mum about the gossip of her love interest.It is amusing to see how she makes her life,her brothers and her parents life open book but shrouds her lovers into secrecy(only the part related to her is shown).In this way, she is like me." — Jul 24, 2026 09:38AM
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"So we know were we are. In an absurd village, people are confused, some are slimy on top of that. 2 people presumed dead (who acted very slavish in the office and hero in here are back)." — Feb 18, 2026 06:26AM
"So we know were we are. In an absurd village, people are confused, some are slimy on top of that. 2 people presumed dead (who acted very slavish in the office and hero in here are back)." — Feb 18, 2026 06:26AM
In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon it, from saying yes or
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as I already know the impact execution had on the writer, I was looking forward to it's first entry kin the book. I was not disappointed . This entry was profound and the last few pages have been nothing but a delight.
“Your life purpose is not a goal or an end result. It is a way of being in the world. Your purpose is a verb. It describes who you want to be, how you want to be, what you want to create, give, and contribute to the world while you are here.”
― The Solution To Social Anxiety: Break Free From The Shyness That Holds You Back
― The Solution To Social Anxiety: Break Free From The Shyness That Holds You Back
“Enlightenment thinkers, both French and German, argued that the objectionable features of Judaism had to be erased before the Jew could be free: Jews who were discriminated against accepted this, and thus often directed their rage more towards the unregenerated Jew than those who persecuted them both.”
― History of the Jews
― History of the Jews
“Body and soul, it taught, were one and jointly responsible for sin, therefore jointly punishable. This became an important distinction between Christianity and Judaism. The Christian idea that, by weakening the body through mortification and fasting, you strengthened the soul, was anathema to Jews. They had ascetic sects as late as the first century AD, but once rabbinical Judaism established its dominance, the Jews turned their backs forever on monasticism, hermitry and asceticism. Public fasts might be commanded as symbols of public atonement, but private fasts were sinful and forbidden. Abstaining from wine, as the Nazarites did, was sinful, for it was rejecting the gifts God has provided for man’s necessities. Vegetarianism was rarely encouraged.”
― History of the Jews
― History of the Jews
“The bifurcation of Christianity and Judaism was a gradual process. To some extent it was determined by the actions of the Jews themselves. The consolidation of Judaism round the rigorous enforcement of Mosaic law, as a result of the crushing of the reform programme by the Maccabees, was the essential background to the origin and rise of Jewish Christianity. Equally, the drift of Jewish rigorism towards violence, and the head-on collision with the Graeco-Roman world which inevitably followed in 66–70 AD, finally severed the Christian branch of Judaism from its Jewish trunk.”
― History of the Jews
― History of the Jews
“Then the entire shipment, stark naked, were driven towards the gas chambers which they were told were ‘disinfectant baths’.201 At no point did anyone have a chance to resist. The most they could do was to tear up the miserable crumpled dollars they had concealed on their persons, so that the Nazis would not have the use of them – their last and only gesture of protest.”
― History of the Jews
― History of the Jews
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