Quote #9

'The memories of the first Independence Day may have faded, but the power of that magical moment must never be forgotten.' [8]

More from Shashi Tharoor

  1. '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…
  2. 'The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.' [9]
  3. 'No Indian nationalist leader ever needed to say: We have created India; now all we need to do is to create Indians.' [7]
  4. 'The idea of India is not based on language, not on geography, not on ethnicity and not on religion. The idea of India is of one land embra…
  5. 'We all have multiple identities in India; we are all minorities in India. Our heterogeneity is definitional.' [6]
  6. 'Our founding fathers wrote a constitution for a dream. We have given passports to their ideals.' [11]
  7. 'Indian nationalism is the nationalism of an idea, the idea of an ever-ever land, emerging from an ancient civilization, sustained by plura…
  8. 'If India had a Latin version of the American motto E Pluribus Unum, it would be E Pluribus Pluribum.' [12]

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