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Quote by Anand Ram Mukhlis
For a long time the streets remained strewn with corpses, as the walks of a garden with dead flowers and leaves.
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The quote describes streets left covered with dead bodies for an extended period. It compares this scene with a garden scattered with dead flowers and leaves, making the destruction feel widespread and strangely ordinary in its accumulation. The comparison is deliberately stark: something associated with beauty and life is used to picture a place overwhelmed by death.
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- The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians, vol. VIII, “Tazkira of Anand Ram Mukhlis”
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