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Lailatul Qadr in 1947 was on the night between 14 and 15 August but after celebrating Independence Day on 15 August in 1948, Pakistan’s cabinet decided to move its observance to 14 August to avoid sharing celebrations with India. Most
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“With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face.”
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“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
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“I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.”
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“All through the 1960s, success was determined by birth: which house or which last name you were born into. But over the next couple of decades, in the 1970s and 1980s, success was determined by education. Now, thankfully, talent has been given its own berth,”
― Rearview: My Roadies Journey
― Rearview: My Roadies Journey
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Arnav’s 2025 Year in Books
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