Island of Blood: Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Other South Asian Flashpoints
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It is this blighted nation’s curse that what seems to be the light at the end of the tunnel, is usually the headlamp of an oncoming train!’
“But the path of self-purification is hard and steep. To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I”
― My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi
― My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi
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