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0. Book Profile 1. INTRODUCTION 2. Essence of improving 3. Command codes in the language software 4. Spontaneous block to information 5. Forgetting as a social art 6. What the Colonial English faced 7. The third quandary 8. A personal briefing 9. Fifth issue 10. The sixth issue 11. Conce...
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What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us._ Franz Kafka There i...
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CHAPTER TWO - Essence of improving
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Now this brings us to the essential question of: what is improving others? The easiest ideas would be giving them food, giving them education, giving them dress and such other things. Well, food is an essential requirement. Since the word education is a wide one, and for the time being one can say, giv...
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CHAPTER THREE - Command codes in the language software
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Now, there are many things connected to this information that one needs to debate upon when contemplating on the theme of developing others. The core issue is that one cannot identify any person or group of persons as evil. Neither the tribal population nor the suppressing people are bad or good in an...
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CHAPTER FOUR - SPONTANEOUS BLOCK TO INFORMATION
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A widespread attempt to block an informationNow coming back to the conspiracy, I can only relate my own experiences when I do write about the feudal content of Asian and African languages. There is always a possibility that any new idea can be stark nonsense. However, the way to deal with it is not to de...
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CHAPTER FIVE - Forgetting as a social art
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One of the starting points in this is an issue of forgetting. There was a situation in my Upper Primary class. I had come from an English background and crudely admitted into the Kerala version of ‘schools’ in class 5. The drastic difference of ambience and teacher features has been mentioned in this w...
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CHAPTER SIX - What the Colonial British faced
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One was the fact that the natives of this land currently called Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Ceylon etc. were of a feudal-language based culture, in which one innately shows respect to those who are powerful, and rude and suppressing. To the weak, the polite and the refined, the general atti...
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CHAPTER SEVEN - The third quandary
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Now how do an English person mix and become comfortable in such a social system, if he or she has to mix? Well, that was also another quandary that the colonial Englishman had to face. He couldn’t work under any ‘Indian’ unless that ‘Indian’ is socially an extremely high personage. In feudal language s...
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CHAPTER EIGHT - A personal briefing
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I can focus on one experience from my own life. Here before embarking on this theme, I should stress that even though there are people who array as my antagonists, in the story, there is no need to frame them as villains or heroes. What I am narrating is only experiences, which gave me insights and observ...
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CHAPTER NINE - Fifth issue
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Now this is another danger that the officials of the East India Company and their family members faced in ‘India’. And also all around the world, including in South Africa. It is like this. There is an English family in ‘India’. They find the ‘Indians’ quite friendly and obliging. They get close and be...
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CHAPTER TEN - The sixth issue
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It is here that I need to enter the next issue of agony for the native-Englishmen who were in India during the East India Company rule. The small-time mutiny in Meerut took up the lives of a number of Englishmen. For an English nation, which values the lives of each of its citizens, this small-time event...
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CHAPTER ELEVEN - Conceptualising looting
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Here again I am forced to mention the East India Company. It is said that they looted ‘India’. I am yet to clearly understand this idea. If trade is looting, well then we need to redefine the meaning of ‘looting’ thus. Otherwise looting is connected to robbery, dacoits, thieving, housebreaking, ope...
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CHAPTER TWELVE - Insights from my own training programme
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Now, let me move ahead and speak about the concept of improving. It is something that needs deep thoughts and contemplation. See this picture of two young children. {Refer to them as N & S}. They were like this before they became acquainted with my children, Varuna and Ashwina. The facial express...
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN - A colonial British quandary
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A second illustration: the power of proper introductionThere was another incident in my life. Many years ago, I used to come home to the village where my parents had built a house, during my school/college holidays. I think this incident happened after my graduation, which I had done in a city. The ho...
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Entering the world of animals
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A terrific allegoryIn many ways, it is like different animals meeting each other. Many years ago, when I went for business purposes to other states in my own nation, I had to go to interior villages. The native language would be quite un-understandable to me. My native language would also be equally u...
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Travails of training
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Introduction and social mixingNow, I need to speak about the ways of introduction and social mixing. In English nations, especially in the US, there was a very brave and possibly idiotic attempt at social mixing, without proper understanding of what was being envisaged. I have mentioned earlier o...
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Notes on education, bureaucracy etc. in India
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The immediate local area and its educational content It is here that I need to speak of the intellectual quality of the local area. The place is in Malabar, in a village area. Even though a village, it is not sparsely populated. The majority of the affluent class persons have worked or are working in th...
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - On to Christian religion
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Redefining ChristianityThe fact was that the British East India Company’s endeavour to spread English in ‘India’ was a great and noble aim. This fact is very much seen in the Minutes on ‘Indian’ Education by Lord Macaulay. There are many nonsensical allegations with regard to this noble aim. One wa...
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - The master classes strike back
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The vengeance of the feudal classesQUOTE from THE INDIAN MUTINY OF 1857 by COLONEL G. B. MALLESON, C.S.L: There must have been a latent motive power to make of an unissued cartridge a grievance so terrible as to rouse into revolt men whose fathers and whose fathers' fathers had contributed to the mak...
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CHAPTER NINTEEN - Codes and routes of command
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The sly pretences of the so-called Indian educatorsNow coming back to education, it should be understood that education in feudal language nations is not an altruistic action as is mentioned by an innumerable number of educators and social reformers. It basically aims at a powerful pulling out of...
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CHAPTER TWENTY - The sly stance of feudal indicant codes
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Social liking and dislikingActually in a feudal language social system, it is not good looks, intelligence, politeness and such things that make a person likeable. The liking is connected to where the person is placed in the virtual codes. If he comes under one as an obedient subordinate, he is like...
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CHAPTER TWENTY ONE - Pristine English and its faded form
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When speaking about pristine English and its current faded form, there is much that I need to speak of. There are quite a lot of varying facets to the dirtying of English. Teachers with superficial allegiance to EnglishThe first one is the issue of English being taught by persons who have no basis in...
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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO - How they take the mile!
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Mr., Mrs. and Miss as usages for buffooneryI have had my own experience in the usage of the words Mr., Mrs., and Miss. Generally, among the ‘Indian’ feudal language speaking persons, it is a funny word. Many years ago, I have seen the local filmmakers using these types of words to extract a joke out of An...
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CHAPTER TWENTY THREE - Media as an indoctrination tool
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Coming back to the computer geniuses of India, the fact is that computer studies do not require a brilliant and unique mind. However, the fact is that the computer and software businessmen in the US swindled their own countrymen and brought in an immensity of outsiders as cheap labourers. It was more...
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CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR - How a nation lost its independence
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Discussing TravancoreNow, there is this question. Wasn’t it a good thing that the independent status of Travancore was demolished by the Indian government? Well, it is not an easy thing to answer. For, the population that came into existence after the takeover by India are the present-day occupan...
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CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE - Social engineering
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INTRODUCTIONSEE THIS PHOTO [CLICK HERE]: What is the cultural effect on the White kids, who speak English when they are forcefully mixed with kids who speak feudal languages? The feudal language speaking kids improve by being associated with kids who speak native-English. Feudal languages do h...
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CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN - Conceptualising Collective Wisdom
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Before continuing with the US social interaction issue, let me dwell on the auto-rickshaw issue for a short while. When the concept of human equality goes awryMy sister was an engineer in a state government Public Sector Unit. She was an Electronics and Communication Graduate Engineer by qualific...
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CHAPTER TWENTY NINE - British colonialism versus American hegemony
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With the Second World War getting over, the Labour Party came to power in Great Britain. In many ways, it could have been seen as a very liberal movement that would push Great Britain from the clutches of the age-old feudal classes. However, it was a very erroneous understanding based on solitary Engl...
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CHAPTER THIRTY - Revolting against a benevolent governance
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CHAPTER THIRTY ONE - The destination
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Now coming back to where the US is heading to, I can only say that it can be a new human experience. I remember a declamation by a Bengal-native Indian female now in the US. Before going into that I need to mention this incident in my life. A circumvented route to describe a terrible human living experienc...
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Back again to TravancoreNow let me go back to the issue of Travancore being an independent nation. At the time of forced amalgamation with India, its population was more than the population of New Zealand of that time. Sir CP might have been a person with great insight and farsightedness. To steer a na...
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CHAPTER THIRTY THREE - Media and its frill sides
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Now, I need to return to the point from where I took the detour. The power, aim and disposition of the media. It is not the media’s aim to improve the people. There was this incident in my life. I was once in the Middle East, some ten years back. One of my relatives was a journalist there. I met a senior person...
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CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR - Online unilateral censorship
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Again back to MediaNow going back to Media, it has been my experience that I am regularly blocked in many of the website wherein I try to post. At one time, it became so powerful a block that even before I had posted anything, my user name would be blocked from registering. What appears online is not me, my...
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CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE - Codes of mutual repulsion
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A digression to a caste based farceNow, here I would want to discuss on what is the problem of Ezhavas mentioning that the Thiyyas are part of their own fold. Ezhavas suffered a lot of discriminations and social limitations which their native king had imposed on them. Most of these events in that kingd...
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CHAPTER THIRTY SIX - Understanding a single factor of racism
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CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN - Light into the darkness
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Back to Wikipedia India PagesNow coming back to the Wikipedia India pages, there are a lot of other discrepancies. These discrepancies are okay from an Indian point of view. However from an international perspective, they are quite mischievous. For, they amount to a hijacking of the credibility o...
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Language fanaticism on Wikipedia India PagesWhen thinking about the pages on Wikipedia about Indian languages, again it is seen that the pages are held hostage by linguistic fanatics. It is a strange world of fanaticism in India. If one were to read the newspapers in Maharashtra, one would have to b...
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Wikipedia faces the prospect of going democratic. Going democratic is a very dangerous thing. In ancient Greek, it was considered that any citizen was of equal calibre and standards to rule the state. Well, that is true, to the extent that the person should be one from inside the social system. So, ou...
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HuffingtonPostI have had this blocking in many places. I have mentioned this already. On HuffingtonPost I had a very curious experience. I used a particular not-common web browser for no particular reason. I found that it was displaying a lot of links to various websites, mainly American. It was th...
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Halal killing and IslamJudging and evaluating people from cruder cultures need to go into these aspects. When such persons enter into English nations, they slowly become part of the sovereignty, due to the rank stupidity of the modern Collective Wisdom of English nations. Once this happens, then...
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CHAPTER FORTY SIX - Wearing out refinement
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HuffingtonPostNow, I need to speak of Indian culture. For, I have mentioned that I would move into that some time back. The question was about what would happen if the American Constitution was adopted as the constitution of India. However, before moving ahead into the topic, I need to finish up my wo...
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CHAPTER FORTY NINE - The miserable Indian media
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Back to MediaI think it would be good to come out of this theme now and continue with my topic, which is about the intractability connected to improving others. I was speaking about print and visual media, when I had to digress and go into so many other things including Wikipedia and America, and then to...
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CHAPTER FIFTY - A low quality idea
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CHAPTER FIFTY ONE - What a local self government could do
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CHAPTER FIFTY TWO - The tantalising aspects of quality improvement of a people
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Now let me speak more on the tantalising aspects of what is quality improvement of a people. Actually there is no need to define it. Look at the ordinary people of India. Then look at the ordinary people of England some thirty years back. There is a difference in so many things. Facial demeanour, person...
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My lifestyleBefore commencing on this, I need to speak about one thing about my own lifestyle. I had purposefully decided not to join the Indian government service. Even though I had written for the top Civil Service, it was clear that I was not of the calibre that could pass that exam. I cannot digress...
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A dubious form of human developmentThere is another aspect of human improvement that I had discerned. It was in the Mappila population of Malabar (Malabar Muslim). In the early 60s and 70s, they went to the Middle East for doing menial jobs there. It was a not a huge deluge of people going there then. In...
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Now when speaking about quality improvement that can be heaped on to social sections by means of technological gadgetry, I need to go into an allegory.ENGLISH COLONIALISM IN A NUTSHELLThere are many tribal groups living in the Amazon fore...
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The physical being in which this writer’s mind is installedI am a human being with all human cravings. All human limitations of the flesh are there in me. Moreover I am not of a saintly disposition. Moral turpitudes are there in me. Sexual cravings have been there in me. So, there is no way that I can aim t...
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A wonderful security that the Englishmen hadThere was this incident in my life. One man from the remote village got me a loan. He was much younger than me in age. In business experience and worldly knowledge he would be a novice. However, in the small village, he could function much better than me. For,...
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When negative social attachments stick to BritainFrom this area, I need to submit my memory of another incident. There was a time in my life when I worked as a Real Estate Agent in a small town in India, for around one year. Even though in cities like Bombay, this profession has no social negativity, in o...
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Back to free trade Now coming back to Free Trade, well let us first see the scope of trade itself. Once there was the Silk Road that extended from China. What did China do about its Silk trade? The production secrets were national secrets. However, look at England. All knowledge it had in everything was...
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The ethical parameters of honesty and its complexitiesThis reaches us to the ethical or moral issue of telling the truth and of lies. Being dishonest is acting immorally. Well, is that the truth? No, it is not the truth. Truth is a link that gives power to relationships. When a wife tells a lie to her hus...
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When negative virtual codes can let loose violent provocationsThere was this incident. It was connected to the fact that for a long-time, I had stopped addressing anyone with a lower indicant You and referring to anyone with a lower indicant He, Him, His, She and Her/s. Though this attitude sprung u...
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Now, I need to extend this idea. Almost all words and speech done by feudal language speakers have direction component, in that they point towards locations of respect or that of denigration. It is not like people speaking in English. When people speak in pristine English, generally there is no defi...
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The British officers also at times did go berserk when the hideous codes of ‘Indian’ feudal languages dawned on them. I can mention one such incident. The so-called Jallianwalabagh incident. It is an incident that is regularly taken up to show the brutality of the British race. The incident is off co...
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CHAPTER SEVENTY SIX- Teaching Hindi in Australia
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There is a chance that this web page may get blocked in various locations in the world. So, it might be safer to download a digital version of this book, freely from this link.You can COMMENT on this book and other writings on this Site on this Comments PageIf you think that this writing is anti-...
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CHAPTER SEVENTY SEVEN- Seeming quixotic features of a very strange training
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Coming back to my own training programme, I have mentioned that I train my students to address me with a Mr. prefixed to my name. However, in the case of students who do not continue the class to reach a level of sophistication in English, it is a losing proposition for me. For, in them, the Mr. soon gets er...
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CHAPTER SEVENTY NINE - Who should rule?
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Then who should rule? Well, it would be quite preposterous to say that I should rule. For, it is not that kind of atrocious discussion that is done here. Well, then who should rule here? It is my considered view that the geographical area currently known as Pakistan, India and Bangladesh should be rule...
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CHAPTER EIGHTY What is it that I am doing?
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CHAPTER EIGHTY ONE: When oblivion takes over
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From the ‘great’ ‘Indian’ history I need to go into the history of the Magadha Kingdom which more or less coincided with the place areas of current-day Bihar in India. Ajathashatru was the king of Magadha. He wanted to capture all the small kingdoms near his kingdom. He was able to defeat all the neig...
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CHAPTER EIGHTY THREE: Routes to quality enhancement
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CHAPTER TWENTY SIX - Social engineering and sex appeal
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Tumultuous repulsion that gets erasedHere I need to speak of an Indian phenomenon. Men like to view females and admire their body and curves. However, there is an issue of domination in this issue, which in turn is connected to the language of interaction. For example, when males working in a superbl...
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