Rajiv Chopra

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Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept

by Robert Spalding (Goodreads Author)

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The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

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What is History? with a new Introduction by Richard J Evans by E.H. Carr (2002-06-11)

by Edward Hallett Carr

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Rajiv Chopra said: " E.H. Carr was not a ‘trained historian,’ and yet wrote many detailed histories. This book is based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1961. There are a few central themes that I picked from the book, and I will discuss them shortly. The reader m ...more "

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The Rudest Book Ever by Shwetabh Gangwar

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your life: people are fucking idiots. But nobody is born an idiot—we unknowingly choose to be idiots because we are not taught the methodologies of how to think. When devoid of this knowledge, people unconsciously view what they have ...more

What Congress And Gandhi Have Done To Untouchables

by B.R. Ambedkar

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Rajiv’s Quotes

“How enlightened of you, Moneo! Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

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“China remained a poor country, with a per capita gross domestic product of only $175 in 1978. Industrial and agricultural shortfalls were severe; in 1975, for example, actual steel output fell 36 percent short of the planned target, and grain was 9 percent below the planned target.19 Chinese economists reported scenes of stark indigence: “I remember going to a village where they had only one blanket for the whole family, and only one bowl,” a researcher recalled.20 Visiting the developed world brought more bad news.”
― Julian Gewirtz, Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s

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“Time does not count itself. You have only to look at a circle and this is apparent. —Leto II (The Tyrant)”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

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“A book with the delicious title of The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, composed by an unnamed Greek in about 80 CE, gave detailed navigational instructions to those planning to sail to what is now Gujarat, and thence to gain access to the Deccan, where one could buy and export such specialties as ginseng, aromatic oils, myrrh, ivory, agate, carnelian, cotton cloth, silk, Indian muslins, yarn, and long pepper.”
― Wendy Doniger, Beyond Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics

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“And the truth is that I truly didn’t think of them as human beings. “They’re not human beings, they’re kulak trash!” – that’s what I heard again and again, that’s what everyone kept repeating. And when I think about it all now, I wonder who first talked about kulak trash. Lenin? Was it really Lenin? How the kulaks suffered. In order to kill them, it was necessary to declare that kulaks are not human beings. Just as the Germans said that Yids are not human beings. That’s what Lenin and Stalin said too: The kulaks are not human beings. But that’s a lie. They are people. They are human beings. I can see now that we are all human beings.60”
― Vasily Grossman, Everything Flows

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