Amit Schandillia Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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This is where it started… December 19, 1843 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Page 7 The birthplace of “Merry Christmas.” https://t.co/oLnItZj2wd

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“The Satanic Verses is one of the greatest books of it’s [sic] time.” ~ Kangana Ranaut If you can believe the woman’s read the book, you are an asset to the nation. 🤣

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So which was the first? Johnson? “A Dictionary of the English Language” published by Samuel Johnson in 1755 is often considered the first by many. It froze many spellings in place and brought much semantic uniformity to the English lexicon. But was it the first dictionary? https://t.co/6slPXlD3FB

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On Feb 28, 1947, Liaquat Ali Khan, who would later join Pakistan as its first Prime Minister became the first Indian Finance Minister to present the budget. This was the first budget to abolish the controversial salt tax. A good 17 years after Gandhi’s Dandi March. https://t.co/MhQ8cLPWKd

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Ernest Hemingway. Best known for classics like The Old Man and the Sea and Farewell to Arms. Least known for having survived anthrax poisoning, pneumonia, skin cancer, ruptured spleen, ruptured kidney, ruptured liver, fractured skull, broken backbone, and two plane crashes. https://t.co/AVgPxMVkf1

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This is where it started… December 19, 1843 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Page 7 The birthplace of “Merry Christmas.” https://t.co/oLnItZj2wd

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So just as we have Mother Ganges, they have a Father Thames. Which eventually becomes a “mother” which is what you’re most likely to have seen in pictures. References: 1. Book: I Never Knew That about the River Thames by Christopher Winn, 2010 2. https://t.co/yGE18kpVWX

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@gsmadhusudan 100 Years was my intro to the genre, and even that fried my head, although less so than Satanic. The only work I managed to successfully complete was Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

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Just stumbled upon this most interesting two-year-old piece by Aabhas Maldahiyar in The Print. Brilliant work, very edifying, packed with shocking revelations. Of all, one bit stood out in particular and I decided to explore. Lemme share what I found. https://t.co/g5eK0a95am

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34/35 And that concludes the poem. If this reminds you of something in English, it’s probably Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,’ a much shorter 1750 work with a similar theme. Both works explore the insurmountable grief of the loss of a loved one. https://t.co/8PXdI34jZX