The Battle of Belonging: On Nationalism, Patriotism, And What it Means to Be Indian

by Shashi Tharoor

As the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno wrote: ‘An emancipated society...would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.’ He conceived of ‘the better state’ as ‘one in which people could be different without fear’.127 Such