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- Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.
- In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
- I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was…
- I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian…
- When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a…
- Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no…
- You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that…
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