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In this letter Afzal describes how he was tortured in the STF camp—with electrodes on his genitals and chillies and petrol in his anus. He mentions the name of Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh who said he needed
“You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals.”
― Nationalism
― Nationalism
“Even though from childhood I had been taught that idolatry of the Nation is almost better than reverence for God and humanity, I believe I have outgrown that teaching, and it is my conviction that my countrymen will truly gain their India by fighting against the education which teaches them that a country is greater than the ideals of humanity.”
― Nationalism
― Nationalism
“And the idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anæsthetics that man has invented.”
― Nationalism
― Nationalism
“It is rather difficult to talk about human memory because we don’t know how the brain works in detail. We do, however, know all about how computer memories work.”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
“humans are in the domain eucarya, in the kingdom animalia, in the phylum chordata, in the subphylum vertebrata, in the class mammalia, in the order primates, in the family hominidae, in the genus Homo, in the species sapiens.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
Pramod’s 2025 Year in Books
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