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“It was India’s forsaken multitudes - whose suitability for democracy was repeatedly questioned and whose disenfranchisement high-mindedly rationalised away by the country's post-colonial elite - who resuscitated the republic [from the Emergency]”
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“I remember stony landscapes in which I sensed the mysterious imprint left by eyes that had looked on them for centuries upon centuries before me”
― The Genius of Judaism
― The Genius of Judaism
“I thought maybe we’d get all these engineers together and sit around a table. […] I felt that engineers were different from other people, that they were interested in combating nature, that they were above politics […] But I was naive”
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“Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts”
― Coromandel: A Personal History of South India
― Coromandel: A Personal History of South India
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