While he was in Srinagar Central Jail, even before hearing the death sentence, Maqbool Butt was already contemplating the idea of escape. But after he had heard the judge sentence them to death, he decided to make a definitive plan. Firstly he approached like-minded fellow Meer Ahmad, Ghulam Yasin, Subedar Kala Khan, Jamas Khan, Gul Zaman, and others for their advice and counsel. It was decided that the small number of guards at the jail should be overpowered by way of a sudden assault, and then their weapons and keys should be seized and the jail doors should then be unlocked. On the day before the night of the planned attack, however, Jamas Khan (of Kharal Maldialan, Bagh), and Gul Zaman (of Jundgran, Muzaffarabad) suddenly got cold feet, and overcome by fear, they refused to co-operate. Mohammad Maqbool Butt, after seeking the advice of his other friends, came up with another idea; they would escape by breaking through a section of the prison wall. Mr. Butt and Meer Ahmad were being held in cell number 1. They pierced their way into cell number 2 which was being used as a storeroom. It was here that they pierced a hole into the 3 ft. thick and 20 ft. high wall. Most of the work was carried out by Meer Ahmad. It was on the 9th of November 1968, (the night between the 17th and 18th of the holy month of Ramadhan), at 2.15 a.m., when Meer Ahmad, Ghulam Yasin, and Mohammad Maqbool Butt successfully escaped through the hole in the wall.

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites. "Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune

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