‘Miłosz was from first to last negotiating how poetry ... can “bear” the suffering all around without falsifying it. His was an austere vision of the poet’s calling.’

Rowan Williams on the life and work of Czesław Miłosz.

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Rowan Williams: The Poet’s Burden - On Czesław Miłosz: Visions from the Other Europe by Eva Hoffman

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The ruler of Gwalior ‘named his son George after the British king. His counterpart in Bahawalpur ... boasted a collection of six hundred dildos, which Pakistan’s generals solicitously buried when they deposed him’.

@pratinavanil on India’s Maharajahs.

Pratinav Anil - Midnight’s Playboys

Pratinav Anil: Midnight’s Playboys - Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki

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