Sublime

The people I admire most have a way of escaping the bubble of culture. Sometimes via religion; sometimes via old books; sometimes via time in nature. Without such an escape, propaganda wins. You stop thinking for yourself. Modern delusions grow into an all-consuming mind virus.

I found a small book that spoke about Tarimala Nagireddy aka Comrade TN. He was a Telugu man. He too, like me, was from Anantapur District in Andhra Pradesh. But more importantly, he was a Communist leader, so committed to the cause of economic and social equality, that he eventually rebelled against his own father and redistributed hundreds of acr

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