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“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
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“Some have argued that as language is the medium of knowledge, that which comes in the form of language constitutes a text; since language is interpreted by the individual, the reading by the individual gives meaning to the text; therefore each time a text is read by a different individual it acquires a fresh meaning. Taken to its logical conclusion, this denies any generally accepted meaning of a text and is implicitly a denial of attempts at historical representation or claims to relative objectivity, since the meaning would change with each reading. However, the prevalent views are more subtle.”
― The Penguin History of Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300
― The Penguin History of Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300
“Geography is not just about the physical terrain, but also about the meaning that we attribute to it. Thus, the Saraswati flows, invisibly, at Allahabad.”
― Land of seven rivers: History of India's Geography
― Land of seven rivers: History of India's Geography
“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
― Battles in the Desert & Other Stories
― Battles in the Desert & Other Stories
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