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End of Che’s dream

In the closing lines of The Motorcycle Diaries, Che Guevara writes: I steel my body, ready to do battle, and prepare myself to be a sacred space within which the bestial howl of the triumphant...

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Such a Long Journey and India

Why Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey is a must-read for the Mumbaikar (and indeed for anyone interested in post independence Indian history) On eating beef And a time also arrived when Gustad...

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In the Fullness of Time – Random clippings from three books

There are three different books that I am currently reading – Romila Thapar’s Early India, Michel Danino’s The Lost River and JRR Tolkein’s The Hobbit (part of my periodic pilgrimage to middle earth)....

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Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is a set of stories cum essays which explore the two words in the title. In communist Czechoslovakia, “forgetting” was a political activity. It was...

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The Great Patriotic War

For the Soviet Union, the Great Patriotic War caused more casualties than any other combatant country. Via Metafilter, I came across this repository of memoirs of Soviet soldiers. Sapezhnikov Alexei...

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On Independence and parts thereof

Over the long Independence Day weekend, there were a number of interesting pieces that one came across. There are these two pieces by Vikram Doctor which give completely different takes. The first one...

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Of Resistance and Genocide

I had bookmarked two links which I wanted to blog about at a convenient date. Though they are already dated, I suppose such themes as they convey are never go out of vogue for a historian. Nancy Wake,...

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Action Figures from Russia

The legendary Lyudmila Pavlichenko snuffed out the lives of 309 Germans during the Stalingrad seige. Lyudmila Pavlichenko Woody Guthrie wrote a song as a tribute for her I’d hate to drop in a parachute...

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Aung San Suu Kyi

June 16, 2012 at Oslo: A positive aspect of living in isolation was that I had ample time in which to ruminate over the meaning of words and precepts that I had known and accepted all my life. As a...

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The Death of Nehru

Yesterday, India survived (and done quite well for itself though things can always be better) 49 years of the post-Nehru era. At 2 p.m. local time today 460,000,000 people in this country that has been...

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