Quote #20
'This is my story of the India I know, with its biases, selections, omissions, distortions, all mine.... Every Indian must for ever carry with him, in his head and heart, his own history of India.' [16]
More from Shashi Tharoor
- 'Ultimately, what matters in determining the validity of a nation is the will of its inhabitants to live and strive together.' [15]
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- 'In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.' [15]
- 'Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.' [16]
- 'India imposes no procrustean exactions on its citizens: you can be many things and one thing.' [15]
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