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"When a mind is stubborn, it has little room for real wisdom and knowledge": India-China war - Mao commented on Nehru’s Forward Policy with one of his epigrams, ‘A person sleeping in a comfortable bed is not easily aroused by someone else’s snoring’

| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru himself admitted, “We were getting out of touch with reality in the modern world and we were living in an artificial atmosphere of our creation"

"Spices, Christianity, and Extreme violence": 1498 Vasco da Gama anchored his ships in Calicut on Malabar Coast of India, a haven of peaceful trade, to only two years later slaughter, destroying houses and killing inhabitants, Portuguese terror started

| Satyaagrah | Diary
We took a ship from Mecca in which were 380 men and many women and children, and we took from it fully 12,000 ducats, with goods worth at least another 10,000. And we burned the ship and all the people on board with gunpowder. – A Portuguese companion of Vasco da Gama, 1502

‘Safety Valve Theory’: Purpose of founding Indian National Congress was to provide a safety valve to Indian nationalists to vent their frustration to avoid another situation like revolt of 1857

| Satyaagrah | Diary
Pakistan became a realty not so much by the efforts of Jinnah or the Muslim League as by the machinations of the British, particularly Churchill and other like-minded politicians to protect their oil interests in the Middle-East

‘The Koh-i- Noor’ or “Two and half days’ food of the entire world” as valued by Mughal Emperor Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur is one Gem in a history that is not known to have ever been bought or sold, it always changed hands as a result of conquest

| Satyaagrah | Diary
According to Rani Sircar, the Kon-i-Noor, the Daryanoor and Timur’s Ruby were exhibited at the Great Exhibition held in London and in 1851 A.D. Timur’s Ruby was subsequently presented with other jewellery to Queen Victoria by the East India Company

Kesarbai Kerkar, Indian voice that made it to NASA Voyager mission - On board the spacecraft was gold-plated copper disc with musical compositions, ranging from Beethoven to Bach to Mozart, carefully selected to reflect global cultural diversity

| Satyaagrah | Diary
Kesarbai Kerkar insisted on removing microphones, loudspeakers from the stage. If something annoyed her, she would cancel the recital midway
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