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“Part of the solution to that problem was for one person, the chief, to exercise a monopoly on the right to use force.”
― Guns, Germs and Steel
― Guns, Germs and Steel
“When you stifle the flow of information to the people,’ Krishan Kant, the Congress’s one-time young Turk, had warned in parliament, ‘you are blocking the channel of information to yourself.”
― How Prime Ministers Decide
― How Prime Ministers Decide
“because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.”
― Midnight's Children
― Midnight's Children
“Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg: its humdrum surface conceals at its heart a yolk of egregious violence.”
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
“Very soon into the campaign, Indira Gandhi realized things were not going according to plan. As she told journalist Pran Sabharwal, a few days after she announced elections, ‘Jab se election announce hua hai, chaprasi theek se paani tak nahin pila rahe hain (From the moment I have announced the election, even the peons are cold-shouldering me).”
― How Prime Ministers Decide
― How Prime Ministers Decide
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