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'India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.' [2]

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  1. 'India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a hig…
  2. 'Does NRI (Non-Resident Indian) stand for Not Really Indian or Never Relinquished India? I believe a little of both!' [3]
  3. 'What is most important to me is Jawaharlal Nehru's idea of India, India as a pluralist society and polity, an idea which is central to Ind…
  4. 'Indian nationalism is the nationalism of an idea, the idea of an ever-ever land, emerging from an ancient civilization, sustained by plura…
  5. 'We all have multiple identities in India; we are all minorities in India. Our heterogeneity is definitional.' [6]
  6. 'No Indian nationalist leader ever needed to say: We have created India; now all we need to do is to create Indians.' [7]
  7. 'In building an Indian nation that takes account of the country's true Hindu heritage, we have to return to the pluralism of the national m…
  8. 'The memories of the first Independence Day may have faded, but the power of that magical moment must never be forgotten.' [8]

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