Ramachandra Guha quotes
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“So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly prevails, so long as citizens can speak and write in the language of their choosing, so long as there is an integrated market and a moderately efficient civil service and army, and — lest I forget — so long as Hindi films are watched and their songs sung, India will survive”
-- Ramachandra GuhaSource : Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, Pan Macmillan
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“It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.”
-- Ramachandra GuhaSource : Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, Pan Macmillan
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“What is now in the past was once in the future”
-- Ramachandra GuhaSource : Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, p.6, Pan Macmillan
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.
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“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
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Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
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