In his review of Stalin s Library: A Dictator and His Books, by Geoffrey Roberts, Nigel Jones writes in the Spectator: Roberts takes us through Stalin’s life and shows how his reading molded his actions. Books transformed the bright seminary student into a ferocious revolutionary, prepared to sacrifice family, friends and a vast array of enemies capitalists, kulaks, fellow Bolsheviks, imperialists, Trotskyist deviationists and millions of ordinary Soviet citizens
"खामोशी ही तो खुदा की जुबान है. बाकी सब फूहड़ अनुवाद है", कोई 800 साल पहले ऐसे विचार देने वाले सूफी संत और कवि जलालुद्दीन मुहम्मद रूमी आज ही के दिन पैदा हुए.