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Learning: The political elites understand class solidarity. That's why they can disagree publicly, negotiate privately, and remain united when their collective interests are threatened.

The book is most vivid and horrifying real-world example of how colonialism was never really about sovereign nations, planting flags, spreading civilization, or preaching religion. Colonialism itself was a ruthless corporate project that simply, seamlessly evolved into modern consumer capitalism.

Spain was a case study of exploition of Latin America where economic surplus went into unproductive channels, non- Spanish businessmen and fighting holy wars against Protestantism.

In the search of identity, forgotten past and culture in the face of changing times.

Quite enchanting...

Intersting

The West Pakistan and East Pakistan conflict’s legacy prefigured modern crises in the Balkans and the Middle East by highlighting tensions between state sovereignty and human rights.

Gary Bass’s "The Blood Telegram" shows India standing as a democratic bulwark, bearing the burden of 10M refugees while Nixon ignored the crisis.

Yahya Nixon Kissinger is a troika of mischief here....

Weird. It gave me the vibe of Tin Drum by Gunther Grass and Salman Rushdie's writing style.

It's different..there is a flow in the book whipe reading.

Par excellence....

Beauty captured so compactly...

The Brahmin felt defiled if he happened to touch a Muslim or an untouchable Hindu, the Muslim felt contaminated if he happened to touch a Hindu. I remember an uncle of mine who returned from the pilgrimage to Mecca called Haj, and was brought in a procession from the railway station, many Muslim and even some Hindu friends embracing him on the way. When he came home, he refused to embrace bis own children till he had

Isn’t life itself the final meaning and purpose of life? Isn’t it enough that one has lived, lived for sixty-one years, lived fully, experienced the richest emotions, witnessed the exciting events of one’s times, participated, to whatever humble extent, in the great drama of human existence?

Peshwar, Pune aur Mumbai ke kisse...

Peter Godwin's Mukiwa vividly captures the madness of war through his frontline experiences in Rhodesia's brutal insurgency, from ambushes and clashes with insurgents to the stark futility of a conflict fueled by local betrayals and unyielding violence. Godwin brushes "in touch with death" as a police reservist and chaos of the disintegration.

Brewing childhood memories of the writer in Rhodesia.