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“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
“I am thus optimistic that historical studies of human societies can be pursued as scientifically as studies of dinosaurs—and with profit to our own society today, by teaching us what shaped the modern world, and what might shape our future.”
― Guns, Germs and Steel
― Guns, Germs and Steel
“It was as if I’d found myself in a performance of some extravagant, complex drama, and I didn’t have a script.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.”
― Midnight's Children
― Midnight's Children
“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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