“The drive (Sterilization) was stepped up in July and gained momentum ..... the average of 331/operations per day in June rose to 1578 in July and shot up to 5644 in August...continued to a record 6,000 cases per day”
― Emergency Retold
― Emergency Retold
“(Mr Gandhi thought)...The parliament system was too slow at times "unproductive" , and it never gave a free hand to the person at the top....”
― Emergency Retold
― Emergency Retold
“Priceless saris belonging to the royal ladies, all heavily embroidered with gold thread and encrusted with pearls, were sold for as little as twenty-five rupees!”
― 1857: The Real Story Of The Great Uprising
― 1857: The Real Story Of The Great Uprising
“All of plucked the fruits. [,,] filled our bags to carry with us for onward journey. After we walked one kos our friends remembered that it was forbidden to carry fruits outside the area. If one did, we had to leave behind solid gold worth the weight of the plucked fruits”
― 1857: The Real Story Of The Great Uprising
― 1857: The Real Story Of The Great Uprising
“Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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