Gaurav

“Eighteen applications were received for a licence to make small cars; only that of the prime minister’s son was approved, despite his having no past experience in this regard.”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

“Is it any great wonder’, asked the writer, ‘that an Indian Muslim no longer feels secure in secular India? He feels discriminated against. He feels a second-class citizen.”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

“Nehru was a well-read and widely travelled man. Through his travels and readings, he arrived at a synthesis of socialism and liberalism that he thought appropriate to his country. In other words, the political beliefs he came to profess – and invited the people of India to share – were his own.”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

“The history of the twentieth century, he pointed out, is replete with instances of the tragedy that overtakes democracy when a leader who has risen to power on the crest of a popular wave or with the support of a democratic organisation becomes a victim of political narcissism and is egged on by a coterie of unscrupulous sycophants who use corruption and terror to silence opposition and attempt to make public opinion an echo of authority.”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy