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"Picked up after an year. Quite enthralling. Part ethnographical study part magical realism." — 5 hours, 38 min ago
"Picked up after an year. Quite enthralling. Part ethnographical study part magical realism." — 5 hours, 38 min ago
“In fact, the anti-Muslim stance of much of Hindu nationalism can be construed as partly a displaced hostility against the colonial power which could not be expressed directly because of the new legitimacy created within Hinduism for this power. Such a dynamic would seem to roughly duplicate the displacement of Oedipal hostilities in the authoritarian personality.”
― The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism
― The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism
“The main goal of the regulatory policy has been to control the size of Mumbai by penalizing any new development, fearing that economic success would attract more people.’ Yes, we have deliberately planned for our cities to fail. That has been our intent. If they succeed, then more people would move there, ‘who would have to share an already deficient and immutable infrastructure’. Bertaud concludes: ‘This is a very pessimistic view of urban development.' An understatement, so classically French!”
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“This is the kind of corruption we understand, the corruption of the petty clerk writ large, and so this is the kind of corruption we look for. This is the kind of guilt we expect and understand: personal, targeted, involving suitcases. We really need suitcases.”
― Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
― Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
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