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“India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.” quote by Shashi Tharoor — Download Open image

“India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.”

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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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