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What to remember

 I always felt my memory is not strong enough. Though i read enough, i dont remember much. During one of the morning meditations, i ruminated about the books i remember and which impacted. Here is the list and interestingly most of it, i read it between 1998 and 2002, when i was in college.  a. Zen and the art of ..... this book hooked me for days. I read and re-read it. i was reading will durant during this time, i felt i understood a little better of Kant reading this. What i remember now is the difference between car and motorbike ride, his discussion with a monk. The one shift was the way i looked at material things. Perhaps this led my buy bullet. Though i am not a great rider b. Freedom at midnight, Naokhali yatra. This led to read Gandhi's autobiography and more biographies, judith brown, fisher, last 200 days, etc: .  I vividly remember reading his autobiography. I was crying, couldnt even cost 60 pages. i have read almost all the biographies i think. c. Futu...
Yes there will always be a castiest, sexist, racist, linguist, religious angle to a murder. And we all cry for certain type of murder, and for certain kind of people. And we also choose to hear certain type. when i read Y G mahendran post,  he may be right, there is a difference between the murder of a dalit and murder of a brahmin. There will be and should be more voice for dalits, because of sheer number of dalits who gets killed. Very rarely do we see a brahmin killed because of his or her identity.