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asokan-blog · 16 days ago
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(via “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”*)
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asokan-blog · 1 month ago
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RIFLE RANGE BOY: History rhymes?
history, opium, China, karma, repeat, EIC, British Raj, USA, fentanyl, addiction — Read on www.riflerangeboy.com/2025/06/history-rhymes.html
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asokan-blog · 1 month ago
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asokan-blog · 5 months ago
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asokan-blog · 5 months ago
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asokan-blog · 5 months ago
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Just Another Day
Just Another Day?
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asokan-blog · 6 months ago
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from Borderless...
Not Quite a Towering Inferno
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asokan-blog · 7 months ago
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How Dynamic was Ancient India?
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asokan-blog · 9 months ago
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Dim Memories of the Festival of Lights
Dim Memories of the Festival of Lights
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asokan-blog · 10 months ago
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asokan-blog · 10 months ago
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Finding the Fulcrum
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asokan-blog · 10 months ago
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https://www.riflerangeboy.com/2024/09/reality-tv-in-hindi.html
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asokan-blog · 11 months ago
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From Srinagar to Ladakh: A Cyclist’s Diary
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asokan-blog · 11 months ago
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Don't be a sour grape!
We are told that responding to stupid remarks on our online posts is not worth the effort. It is a known fact that most of the people who make these nonsensical rants are a minority but are loud enough to cause embarrassment. In real life, they would be too timid to say anything ‘on your face’ but gain Dutch courage through the cloak of anonymity and bang away their keyboards with impunity. While…
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asokan-blog · 1 year ago
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This book predates John Lennon's infamous press statement in 1966, in which he was quoted as saying that the Beatles were, at that time, 'more popular than Jesus'. To his defence, the baby boomers were, in fact, losing interest in what the church had to say. 
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asokan-blog · 1 year ago
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Over the past few years, a couple of my childhood friends had the misfortune of having lost their spouses to cancer. One of them fought the deadly disease tooth and nail, but unfortunately, after three long years, the disease got the better of her. He lost the good fight. My devastated friend went awol for an entire year, deciding that solitaire was the best remedy for a broken heart. The societal expectation for the grieved to open up his emotions and replay them like a broken record was not for him.
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asokan-blog · 2 years ago
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