Survival

Survival is a skill that we have to keep learning.

- Eisha

Bad Books

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Book 49: Laura Carter's The Law of Attraction

Book 49: The Law of Attraction

Author: Laura Carter (Jersey, Channel Islands) 🇯🇪

Genre: Romance

Set in: USA 🇺🇸 UK 🇬🇧

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Crazy, indecisive Brit. Manhattan is going to eat her alive.

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My new gym mate: The tiny mouse

Book 48: Make Your Bed - Little things that can change your life... and maybe the world by William H McRaven

Book 48: Make Your Bed - Little things that can change your life ...and maybe the world

Author: William H McRaven (USA) 🇺🇸

Genre: Military/Self-help/Motivational

Set in: USA 🇺🇸 Iraq 🇮🇶 Afghanistan 🇦🇫

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If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.

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Quote for the day: Women are Warriors

Men may have many trades. All women are warriors.

- Eisha

Book 47: The less you preach the more you learn - Aphorisms for our age by Shashi Tharoor and Joseph Zacharias

Book 47: The less you preach the more you learn - Aphorisms for our age

Authors: Shashi Tharoor and Joseph Zacharias (India) 🇮🇳

Genre: Aphorisms/Compilation/Satire

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The most dangerous hunters are those who prefer to hunt alone.

- Joseph Zacharias

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Does NRI (Non-Resident Indian) stand for Not Really Indian or Never Relinquished India? I believe a little of both. Today the NRIs are the National Reserve of India.

- Shashi Tharoor

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Book 46: The Indian Contingent - The forgotten Muslim soldiers of the Battle of Dunkirk by Ghee Bowman

Book 46: The Indian Contingent - The forgotten Muslim soldiers of the Battle of Dunkirk

Author: Ghee Bowman (England) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Genre: History/Historiography/World War II

Set in: England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 India 🇮🇳 Pakistan 🇵🇰 Gibraltar 🇬🇮 France 🇫🇷 Germany 🇩🇪 Switzerland 🇨🇭 Myanmar 🇲🇲 

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Thus at Durnbach the traitors and the heroes are buried together: equal in death, equal in commemoration, equally honoured. Because ultimately there were no heroes or traitors, only men and women doing their job, sometimes in pain and anguish, sometimes without having any choice. Ordinary folk in extraordinary times, not wholly bad or good, but human like you and me.

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The Mahatma's Postal Address

Among #Mahatma Gandhi's most unusual addresses, my favourite is King of India, P. O. Yerwada Jail.

Yesterday, on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, it was my sixth visit to the Gandhi Ashram and with each, I have learned more about the man, Albert Einstein described as, "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."

Also, if you are in Ahmedabad this month, there's a fantastic exhibition of all the different kinds of charkhas (spinning wheels) that were designed and used to make different types of khadi cloth. It's strange the history I studied through school missed this crucial element of India's Freedom Movement.

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Forgive Thy Enemies

Through this course I have learned to see my adversaries in new light. People like me turned into my enemies because their beliefs and goals differed from mine. As a peace builder and someone who has worked with people seeking asylum from places such as Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, I have seen my fair share of hatred from those who didn't want others to leave or didn't want the refugees to settle into their new homelands. But my most formidable adversary is someone who has had a similar background as mine, except for religion. And though religion isn't the reason why we have fought, it's his 'escape' from having to own up to his misdeeds. "It wasn't me but god's will," is the defence of a coward. I had no compassion left for him. But during the compassion call last week, Tim Harrison mentioned how the Dalai Lama asked the audience to pray for Tibet's enemies because they will have to live with the memory of the atrocities they perpetrated. I started thinking and I forgave my adversary. Then, I forgave the trolls.