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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

by Shashi Tharoor

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Sep 12, 2022 09:02PM

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English, August: An Indian Story

by Upamanyu Chatterjee

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Mar 14, 2022 10:30AM

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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

by Steven Levitsky

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Book cover for Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son (Illustrated)

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son (Illustrated) by George Horace Lorimer

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You’ll find that education’s about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver ...more

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“I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: brotherhood-of-man, government

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“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

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“The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.”
― Frank Zappa

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“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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