Tariq Ali

When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.

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These are some quotes by Pakistani author Tariq Ali Historian, who was born on October 21, 1943.

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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

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The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.

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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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