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“Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.” quote by Shashi Tharoor — Download Open image

“Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.”

Shashi Tharoor

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“six decades of Independence have wrought significant change, as exposure to British practices has faded and India’s natural boisterousness has reasserted itself. Some of the state assemblies in our federal system have already witnessed scenes of furniture overthrown, microphones ripped out and slippers flung by unruly legislators, not to mention fisticuffs and garments torn in scuffles among politicians. Pepper spray…

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“My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The”

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“control. The people’s character is deliberately debased, their mind is denationalized and perpetually kept in ignorance and fed with stories of England’s greatness and ‘mission’ in the world… As Pankaj Mishra has observed: European subordination of Asia was not merely economic and political and military. It was also intellectual and moral and spiritual: a completely different kind of conquest than…

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“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written…

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The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power:…

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“On election days, the burdens of poverty and corruption and of a creaky economic system are put aside, and India celebrates. Many voters dress especially for the occasion... None quite voice the thought, but those who came in a steady stream to vote seemed to be saying that India may have fallen far behind its neighbors in the struggle for…

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“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in…

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“India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal. But I seek nothing from history—only an account of itself.”

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I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.

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“In debate he thought high and aimed low.”

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“Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote in a 1936 letter to an Englishman, Lord Lothian, that British rule is ‘based on an extreme form of widespread violence and the only sanction is fear. It suppresses the usual liberties which are supposed to be essential to the growth of a people; it crushes the adventurous, the brave, the sensitive, and encourages the timid,…

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