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“Bombs and bullets alone cannot destroy India, because Indians will pick their way through the rubble and carry on as they have done throughout history.”
― Pax Indica: India and the World of the Twenty-first Century
― Pax Indica: India and the World of the Twenty-first Century
“The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.”
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“Hinduism, with its openness, its respect for variety, its acceptance of all other faiths, is one religion that should be able to assert itself without threatening others.”
― India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond
― India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond
“All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes.”
― The Great Indian Novel
― The Great Indian Novel
“An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a second Partition: and a partition in the Indian soul would be as bad as a partition in the Indian soil. For my sons, the only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts. An India neither Hindu nor Muslim, but both. That is the only India that will allow them to continue to call themselves Indians.”
― Riot
― Riot
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