Post Independence Quotes

“People drink democracy in a glass of tea
but night falls, again.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Synecdoche

“People drink democracy in a glass of tea

but night falls, again.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Synecdoche

“India’s post-independence leadership eschewed parochial nationalism in favor of civic nationalism where the rights and privileges of being Indian were conceived as arising not from some pre-existent modes of belonging—religion, race, or ethnicity—but instead from participation in a collective political endeavor.”
― Bibek Debroy, Getting India Back on Track: An Action Agenda for Reform