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In which Refaat Alareer is dying as an old man & Henry Kissinger has died young.

"From 1765-1938, the British Empire looted an estimated $45 trillion from India.

The British Empire stole so much that one of the very first Indian words to enter the English language was the Hindustani slang for plunder: 'loot'." --@SpiritofLenin (via @_ryanruby_)

"Anyway, that’s where I grew up: in one of the most naturally rich and unnaturally impoverished places in the world."

"EVIL

As tied,
I saw a sill,
it sets a way away:
a lade,
vastness;
a will.
A sun,
in me lost,
felt left.
Solemn,
in us all.
I was sent;
saved:
a layaway,
a waste, still,
I saw a side:
it’s alive."

--@MerlinaAcevedo

"Ten years ago, the cultural discourse of academia hadn’t yet metabolized the nightmare state the profession was in." (via @kukukadoo)