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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

by Ramachandra Guha

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“One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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“I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib”
― Khushwant Singh, Delhi: A Novel

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“How downhearted was Meer at night! Whatever came to his lips became a cry for help. When he started on the path of love, he was like fire; Now it’s ended he is a heap of ashes on a pyre.”
― Khushwant Singh, Delhi: A Novel

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“And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

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“At four Bela was developing a memory. The word yesterday entered her vocabulary, though its meaning was elastic, synonymous with whatever was no longer the case. The past collapsed, in no particular order, contained by a single word.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

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