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“So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.
The problem’s name is God.”
― The Satanic Verses
The problem’s name is God.”
― The Satanic Verses
“Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.”
― The White Tiger
― The White Tiger
“No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.”
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“How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.”
― A Passage to India: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism
― A Passage to India: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism
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