Sunday, 26. August 2007
Topic: LOST FOUND - on August 26, 2007 at 6:03:00 PM CEST
INDIA AFTER GANDHI - The History of the World’s Largest Democracy
Late in “A Suitable Boy,” Vikram Seth’s fictional panorama of early 1950s India, the difficult but decent politician Mahesh Kapoor receives advice from an underling: “We should think above divisions, splits, cliques! ... This is India ... the country where faction was invented before the zero. If even the heart is divided into four parts can you expect us Indians to divide ourselves into less than 400?
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