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"45 pages about absolutely nothing - wonder if A Gentleman in Moscow was just luck - Like Ajit Agarkar running thru Australia in Adelaide 2003/4 on his day." — Jan 09, 2026 03:28AM
"45 pages about absolutely nothing - wonder if A Gentleman in Moscow was just luck - Like Ajit Agarkar running thru Australia in Adelaide 2003/4 on his day." — Jan 09, 2026 03:28AM
“It is right to look for someone’s “real” intentions after his ostensible intentions have been shown to be incompatible with the actual data of his situation and behaviour. But simply disregarding his explicit reasons so as to impose your own alternative explanation without giving him a fair hearing is not acceptable.”
― Decolonizing The Hindu Mind: Ideological Development Of Hindu Revivalism
― Decolonizing The Hindu Mind: Ideological Development Of Hindu Revivalism
“But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman.”
― Decolonizing The Hindu Mind: Ideological Development Of Hindu Revivalism
― Decolonizing The Hindu Mind: Ideological Development Of Hindu Revivalism
“बचपन में माँ का बेटे को गले लगाना जितनी छोटी घटना है, बड़े होकर बेटे का माँ को गले लगाना उतनी ही बड़ी घटना।”
― Ibnebatuti । इब्नेबतूती
― Ibnebatuti । इब्नेबतूती
“V.D. Savarkar disagreed with those Hindus who expected much from the recognition of the common origin of Hindus and Indian Muslims: “Some well-meaning but simple-minded Hindus amuse themselves with the thought … that inasmuch as the majority of Indian Moslems also are in fact allied to us by race and language … they could easily be persuaded to acknowledge this homogeneity and even blood relation with the Hindus and merge themselves into a common National Being if but we only remind them of these affinities and appeal to them in their name. … As if the Moslems do not know it all!! The fact is that the Moslems know of these affinities all but too well: the only difference [is] that while the Hindus love these affinities which bind the Hindu to a Hindu…—the Moslems hate the very mention of them and are trying to eradicate the very memory of it all.”
― Decolonizing The Hindu Mind: Ideological Development Of Hindu Revivalism
― Decolonizing The Hindu Mind: Ideological Development Of Hindu Revivalism
“The RSS attitude of spurning the intellect and denouncing the intellectuals has worked as a self-fulfilling prophecy: since they left the intellectual field entirely to their enemies, the available intellectuals would not be “of any use to the nation”, meaning not sympathizing to the RSS programme. The political Hindu movement has paid a heavy price for this silly anti-intellectual prejudice.”
― Decolonizing The Hindu Mind: Ideological Development Of Hindu Revivalism
― Decolonizing The Hindu Mind: Ideological Development Of Hindu Revivalism
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