Kindle Notes & Highlights
‘Will it last long, Tripathi? This Emergency?’ ‘Who can say, Raja saab? At the moment the elites are most affected, the newspapermen, the politicians. The public, the truth be told, are quite relieved. They feel there’ll be some proper governance for once.’ ‘It’ll be bad in the long run, Tripathi, you watch. This kind of thing always is.’
Nixu Mohapatra. He’s Chief Minister of Odra, for the umpteenth time! He still doesn’t speak a word of the local language. Can you believe it? But the people, they love him for it. They say it protects him from corrupting voices. This must be what your father used to describe as “that innate Indian distrust of oneself”.’
My father would always say, “These goons in saffron, they say they want a Hindu renaissance, they have no idea what
a Hindu renaissance would entail. Their shitty little values about sex and food would be the first thing to go out of the window”. But try telling them that!’
When you cause pain to those weaker than you, the guilt turns to loathing. Into a most secret and profound loathing, for we can never name it as such. We explain it away in other terms, but we, and we alone, know it to be the most animal of all hatreds: our hatred of weakness.’
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‘Yes. Apparently, every time there is an ascendant power in the world, India will remake herself in its image! It’s ludicrous.’ ‘That’s it, that’s it. I tell you, Toby, there is slavery in this country’s blood. You can’t get it out, no matter how hard you try.’
In India – unlike, say, Russia, or China – the foreigner was welcomed as a king at first. People regarded him as something rarer and more precious than they were themselves, someone who stood neutral to their own violent differences and internal suspicions.
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“The past has to be seen as dead; or the past will kill.”’
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‘Yes. Go-ghna! Which is apparently an irregular upapada tatpuruṣa. So instead of meaning noxious to kine, it is derived as: for whom a cow is killed.’ Maniraja winced. ‘And guess what that is? A guest! Go-ghna is a synonym for guest. Now go tell the men in saffron that!’
I knew it!!!!!!
