Gaurav

“Is it any great wonder’, asked the writer, ‘that an Indian Muslim no longer feels secure in secular India? He feels discriminated against. He feels a second-class citizen.”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

“Nehru was a well-read and widely travelled man. Through his travels and readings, he arrived at a synthesis of socialism and liberalism that he thought appropriate to his country. In other words, the political beliefs he came to profess – and invited the people of India to share – were his own.”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

“The All-India Congress Committee had once elected representatives from the states, these in turn sent up by Congress bodies at the taluk and district levels. More significantly, the chief ministers of Congress-ruled states were chosen by the local legislators alone. However, after the Congress split in 1969, Mrs Gandhi was able to place her own candidates in key positions.”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

“the English and the Americans were divided by a common language.”
― Jeffrey Archer, The Sins of the Father