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Within India, the meaning, impact and legacy of the Constitution are sites of severe contestation. Supporters of the Constitution—and the tradition of constitutional democracy it has sought to engender—note the huge challenges involved in
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Most political people of mid-20th century expected Balkanisation of India owing to the diversity and culture. India as a democratic experiment has surprised them.
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
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“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
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“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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