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India is the world’s biggest hypocrisy in the name of democracy, autocracy in the name of sovereignty and monarchy in the name of republic.
Indian politicians were far more intolerant and venomous about their criticism than the British.
“Indian politics in the absence of Gandhiji would be practical, logical and will possess the ability to retaliate, and our country will be powerful with armed forces”
Thus, for the first and only time in world history, a country had financed its enemy who was waging a war against it and it was all due to the coercion of Gandhi.
“Let’s not disturb him. He might be sleeping. I shall never forgive myself if I were to disturb his sleep on his last night as a free man” 44
“It is God who is speaking to you through us” 40.
“You have the rest of your life to weep, but we have just half an hour to talk”
one got beatified as a martyr while the other got vilified as a murderer.
If devotion to one's country amounts to a sin, I admit I have committed that sin.
