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1957, when the Communists won the State Assembly elections and Nehru invited them to form a government. Chacko’s hero, Comrade E. M. S. Namboodiripad, the flamboyant Brahmin high priest of Marxism in Kerala, became Chief Minister of the
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“Don’t go to sleep one night, wrote Rūmī, the thirteenth-century Persian poet. What you most want will come to you then. Warmed”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”
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“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. ”
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“One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
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Swateek’s 2025 Year in Books
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