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“Whoever has built a new city in Delhi has always lost it: the Pandava brethren, Prithviraj Chauhan, Feroz Shah Tughluk, Shah Jehan ... They all built new cities and they all lost them. We were no exception.”
― City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
― City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
“For all its faults we love this city.’ Then, after a pause, she added: ‘After all, we built it.”
― City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
― City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
“But on balance I think you must never take land away from a people. A people’s land has a mystique. You can go and possibly order them about for a bit, perhaps introduce some new ideas, build a few good buildings, but then in the end you must go away and die in Cheltenham.’ Iris sighed. ‘And that, of course, is exactly what we did.”
― City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
― City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
“the Kauravas and the Pandavas turned from demi-gods into cave men, the great war reduced to a tribal feud fought with sticks and stones.”
― City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
― City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
“So vast is India, and so uniquely resilient and deeply rooted are her intertwined social and religious institutions, that all foreign intruders are sooner or later either shaken off or absorbed.”
― White Mughals
― White Mughals
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