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Ash is Currently Reading

Ash is currently reading

Bravehearts of Bharat: Vignettes from Indian History

by Vikram Sampath

bookshelves: 2024-reading-list, history, indian-author, non-fictioon, currently-reading

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Varahas Vengeance (The Battle of Vathapi #2)

by Arun Krishnan (Goodreads Author)

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Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent

by Pranay Lal

bookshelves: 2022-reading-list, non-fictioon, currently-reading

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Ash’s Quotes

“(a preliminary study hints that Varanasi may be as old as the Harappan cities).24”
― Sanjeev Sanyal, The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

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“We know about the remarkable tale of how a foreign prince was invited to rule over a kingdom in southern India because Nandi Varman II himself tells us the story in inscriptions and bas-relief panels on the walls of the Vaikuntha Perumal temple in Kanchipuram.”
― Sanjeev Sanyal, The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

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“It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras

tags: evil

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“Roman writer Pliny (23–79 AD) wrote: ‘Not a year passed in which India did not take fifty million sesterces away from Rome.”
― Sanjeev Sanyal, Land of seven rivers: History of India's Geography

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“The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

tags: hate, love

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