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A History of India
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"Nationalism supplies and feeds on continuous histories of discrete peoples and cultures. But the nation-state is a phenomenon of the modern era and long-term national histories are therefore more or less bogus. Peoples have linear inheritances, but also they experience discontinuities and external influences. How then can there be a history of ‘India’?" May 17, 2013 11:23pm

 
Flow: The Psychol...

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"AT CERTAIN TIMES in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn’t fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings. In Confucian China, in ancient Sparta, in Republican Rome, in the early Pilgrim settlements of New England, and among the British upper classes of the Victorian era, people were held responsible for keeping a tight rein on their emotions ... [contd]" May 11, 2013 06:25am

 

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"Ian wrote: "I'm more worried about the undereducated."

That is the sentiment behind the quote - how society treats the under-educated...
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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire by P.F. Clarke
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"The Caker Baker wrote: "I wouldn't dismiss the Godot=God idea too quickly, Beckett was a very smart dude and he definitedly knew English. Remember, Vl...more "
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Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
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Biodiversity by John Spicer
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"Marnie wrote: "this is such a complex masterpiece. great review!"

Aubrey wrote: "Fantastic review. I really do need to reread this."

Thanks!
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Riku Sayuj rated a book 3 of 5 stars
The Face You Were Afraid To See by Amit Bhaduri

A collection of anti-capitalist essays that advocate a more inclusive planning environment. Gets a bit repetitive after the first couple of essays.

The point being made is that once high-speed economic development starts with a part of the population...more
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
recommended to Riku Sayuj by: english teacher in seventh grade!
read in July, 2012
On Romancing The Devil

Warning: This review might contain spoilers even outside the hidden 'spoiler alert' regions. I honestly am not capable of discriminating.


The book is not about the murder or about who did it, those things were very apparent befo...more
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Niels Bohr
“You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”
Niels Bohr

E.E. Cummings
“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
E.E. Cummings

John Steinbeck
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

Michel de Montaigne
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

Vladimir Mayakovsky
“A line is a fuse
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky

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2013 Reading Challenge
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Riku Sayuj has read 69 books toward his goal of 167 books.
 
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2011 Reading Challenge
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Riku Sayuj has completed his goal of reading 77 books for the 2011 Reading Challenge!
 
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2012 Reading Challenge
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Riku Sayuj has completed his goal of reading 165 books for the 2012 Reading Challenge!
 
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