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Jan 30, 2021

What do you want?

You ask, “From whom?” I reply, “Life.” And I rephrase the question: What do you want from your life? You ask, “Why should I want anything?” I say, “Because you are a person. And people usually like to want.” …

Life

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What do you want?
What do you want?

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·Oct 2, 2020

Japan’s Journey through World War II Defeat

Review of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, by John W. Dower — Embracing Defeat is the Pulitzer and National Book Award winning historical opus of immediate post World War II period in Japan by MIT professor John W. Dower. …

Japan

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Japan’s Journey through World War II  Defeat
Japan’s Journey through World War II  Defeat

Aug 16, 2020

The Grandest Society of Merchants in the Universe

Book Review — The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple[1] — “A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred million people”, wrote Tolstoy in a letter to the Hindu in 1908.[2] …

Mughal Empire

8 min read

The Grandest Society of Merchants in the Universe
The Grandest Society of Merchants in the Universe

Jun 9, 2020

Khushwant Singh: A Tribute to the King of the Columnists

It turns out that the dirty old sardar wasn’t so dirty. Neither was he “Not a nice man to know” as he made a claim to be. He was quite an astute observer of his times and lived a remarkable life. Khushwant Singh was one of the most prolific writers…

Khushwant Singh

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Khushwant Singh : A tribute to the King of the Columnists
Khushwant Singh : A tribute to the King of the Columnists
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