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Power intoxicates those who hold it.

— Mubarak Ali

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If history remains neutral and does not condemn and declare such acts as immoral, it would fail to create any consciousness about these evil deeds.

History is full of the accounts of those who imposed their absolute power against popular will.

When we talk about culture, it includes literature, paintings, music, dance, sculpture, folklores, festivals, and celebrations.

Historical process is not a linear one. It is also not stagnant. On the contrary, it moves ahead and brings changes to social, political and economic structure.

However, the question who built Taj Mahal no longer remains a mystery. Surely it was not built by Shah Jahan but by architects, calligraphers, masons, stone-cutters, and metal workers and ordinary laborers who built it and made it a symbol of creative mind of the Indian society.

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When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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