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Arundhati Roy’s "Mother Mary Comes to Me" is a powerful and poetic work that blends her trademark political clarity with deep personal reflection. With sharp prose and lyrical undertones, Roy examines questions of faith, resistance, and the human con
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama is an incisive and brilliantly researched work that strips away the layers of myth surrounding one of Europe’s most celebrated explorers. Rather than repeating the heroic narratives of empi
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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.”
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“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
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“I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same fifty percent rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't...Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the voodoo lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same...so just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself...”
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“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.”
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“Many of the politicians in Delhi and Karachi, too, had once fought together against the British; they had social and family ties going back decades. They did not intend to militarize the border between them with pillboxes and rolls of barbed wire. They laughed at the suggestion that Punjabi farmers might one day need visas to cross from one end of the province to the other. Pakistan would be a secular, not an Islamic, state, its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, promised: Hindus and Sikhs would be free to practice their faiths and would be treated equally under the law. India would be better off without two disgruntled corners of the subcontinent, its people were told, less”
― Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
― Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
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