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  "id": 16423962,
  "title": "Word’s Eye View: S.Y. Quraishi Offers A Refreshing Take On Public Life, Blending Personal Recollections, Lessons In Humility, And More In His Latest Book",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/words-eye-view-s-y-quraishi-offers-a-refreshing-take-on-public-life",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-25T02:50:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/lifestyle/words-eye-view-sy-quraishi-offers-a-refreshing-take-on-public-life-blending-personal-recollections-lessons-in-humility-and-more-in-his-latest-book"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Two sentences into his new book, Dr S. Y. Quraishi makes you smile. This is how the book starts: “I was not born free. But my birth on 11 June 1947 meant that I lived as a subject of the British Empire for barely two months. Perhaps I managed in two months what Mahatma Gandhi and his colleagues struggled for half a century to accomplish: freedom.” Throughout the book, the author has a talent for…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}