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True Valor
The word entered English from a police campaign, and outlived every claim that produced it.
The word entered English from a police campaign, and outlived every claim that produced it.
A British surgeon in Madras named Richard Sherwood published an essay describing a class of criminal gangs he called Thugs.
They befriended travellers on the road, he wrote, before robbing and strangling them.
And they dedicated their killings to the goddess Kali, as a sacred rite.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.