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India's existence has been a puzzle not just to casual observers or commonsensical journalists; also been an anomaly for academic political science, according to whose axioms cultural heterogeneity and poverty, do not make a nation, still less a democratic one
— Oct 17, 2022 02:45AM
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Jeswin Arangassery
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300 pages in... I feel so excited reading a non-fiction. Last part was about the Southern challenge India faced. Maybe it is because this is all part of my story that I feel so connected and excited along with the book.
— Jan 12, 2023 01:44AM
Jeswin Arangassery
is on page 212 of 912
Russians and Indians working together to build Bhilai steel plant is one of the exciting and intriguing chapters of the book yet
— Dec 03, 2022 06:04AM
Jeswin Arangassery
is on page 191 of 912
Nehru and Golwalkar agreeing on something
— Nov 29, 2022 08:25AM
Jeswin Arangassery
is on page 78 of 912
The battle for Kashmir was, and is, not merely or even mostly a battle for territory. It is, as Josef Korbel put it half a century ago, an ‘uncompromising and perhaps uncompromisable struggle of two ways of life, two concepts of political organization, two scales of values, two spiritual attitudes’.^
On one side was the idea of India; on the other side, the idea of Pakistan.
— Oct 25, 2022 04:26AM
On one side was the idea of India; on the other side, the idea of Pakistan.
Jeswin Arangassery
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The press nowadays is chock full of stories of India's economic success, this reckoned to be so much at odds with it's past history of poverty and deprivation. However the real success of modern India lies not in the domain of Economics but in the that of politics.
— Oct 17, 2022 02:58AM
