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“Over the years I have felt that both the IAS and IPS have developed a kind of feudal class consciousness that does not go well with the service to the people that India needs. Their initial idealism begins to diminish within a few years of service and they gradually become part of the furniture.”
― Beyond The Lines: An Autobiography
― Beyond The Lines: An Autobiography
“All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine”
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“How queer, the Hindus don’t feed their cows although they call the cow “mother”!’ Bakha thought.”
― Untouchable
― Untouchable
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