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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

by Sam Dalrymple

bookshelves: currently-reading, history, india-and-indians, british-empire, asia-and-asians, politics, war, beautiful-prose, non-fiction, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 19th-century-victorian

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The Rest is History: History's Most Curious Questions Answered

by Tom Holland

bookshelves: currently-reading, history, non-fiction, witty-prose, banter-repartee, anthology-collection, short-stories

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Tilingo, tilingo: rimas, trabalenguas y adivinanzas tradicionales / Tilingo, tilingo: Traditional Rhymes, Tongue Twisters and Riddles (Spanish Edition)

by Sergio Andricaín (Compiler)

bookshelves: currently-reading, picture-book-pb, pb-foreign-spain, pb-poetry-rhyming, poetry, anthology-collection

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“We fancy ourselves adept multitaskers, but studies show that our performance drops dramatically when we attempt to focus on more than one thing at a time. That’s because the human brain has an attentional bottleneck impacting both perception and action. In short, our efforts to get more done actually slow us down.”
― Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

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“Keeping track of your energy levels is an easy way to start managing your physical resources better. For a week or two, make a note of your energy levels at different times of the day so you can identify your energy peaks and troughs.”
― Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

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“I want to be with you. Nothing else is going to matter to me more than that. Not at the end of my life. Not even now. Nothing will matter more than who I spent my time with, and I want it to be you. I need it to be you.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

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“I murmur, “Tell me something no one knows about you,” and he’s quiet and still for so long I start to wonder if I’ve crossed a line. Then he tips his chin down to his clavicle to meet my eyes and says simply, “I’m in love with you.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

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“That afternoon, as the sun dipped below the horizon, the remaining British men and women in the subcontinent sensed their time in the land rapidly slipping away. They weren’t alone and many Anglo-Indian, Armenian, Chinese, Jewish, Irish and Burmese communities who had flourished in India under colonial rule were also leaving. ‘It seems so tempting to stay on,’ wrote Keenan. “One is only 45 and there may be many years to come. However, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, I have decided not to serve on with India or Pakistan. We must think of our home in some very nice place in England and make a quick break with the East … India is no place for us now.”
― Sam Dalrymple, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

tags: history, india, partition, raj

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