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Book cover for Shiksha: My Experiments as an Education Minister
In my view, those who understand education do not necessarily have the authority to bring about a positive change, and the ones who take decisions mostly lack the understanding.
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Ramachandra Guha
“a mere five years after the last maharaja had signed away his land, Indians had ‘come to take integrated India so much for granted that it requires amental effort today even to imagine that it could be different’.”
Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Ramachandra Guha
“in the post-Gandhian war for power the first casualty is decency’.”
Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Romain Rolland
“how often', he said,'does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them.”
Romain Rolland, Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel

Mahatma Gandhi
“Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world... It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself. for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being is to slight those divine powers, and thus to harm not only that being but with him the whole world.”
Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

Vivekananda
“Never forget the glory of human nature! We are the greatest god.. Christs and Buddhas are but waves in the boundless ocean which I AM.”
Swami Vivekananda

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