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I remember we had gone to London in November 1978, after the defeat of the Congress in the post-Emergency elections in 1977. A large number of media persons in a fairly aggressive mood were waiting for Ms Gandhi at the Heathrow Airport
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“It is, in particular, important to distinguish between the inclusionary role of identity and the exclusionary force of separatism.”
― The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
― The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

“But we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself. What I say has very little value. You will forget it the moment you shut this book, or you will remember and repeat certain phrases, or you will compare what you have read here with some other book â€� but you will not face your own life. And that is all that matters â€� your life, yourself, your pettiness, your shallowness, your brutality, your violence, your greed, your ambition, your daily agony and endless sorrow â€� that is what you have to understand and nobody on earth or in heaven is going to save you from it but yourself.”
― Freedom from the Known
― Freedom from the Known

“a human being living an ordinary everyday life in this brutal, violent, ruthless world â€� a world which is becoming more and more efficient and therefore more and more ruthless”
― Freedom from the Known
― Freedom from the Known

“It's the intellectual who transforms the concept of the world into the problem of meaning.”
― Social Psychology
― Social Psychology

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