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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
“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
“In 1787, the future Lord Eldon (then plain John Scott) had argued a case in the equity court and lost. Thirty-three years later, the same case was cited to Lord Eldon when, as lord chancellor, he presided in the court of chancery. Lord Eldon said that he remembered the case: And very angry I was with the decision; but I [have] lived long enough to find out that one may be very angry and very wrong.9”
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
“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
“Pre-Islamic India was renowned for its universities. Great centres of learning like Nalanda, Vaishali, Sarnath, Vikramashila, Takshashila and many more—they attracted students from all over Asia and the world. Following the Islamic invasion of India, all these universities were destroyed. In the centuries following, not a single university was established by any Muslim ruler. This was a Dark Age darker than the one that overtook Europe.”294”
― 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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