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‘India was free…broken in parts…bruised, but free. There was an essential unity to India that no partition could destroy. To that much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal, the ever-new, it was time to redeem their pledge. It was time to bind himself to her service. It was time to build a new nation.’

‘Tongs, saws, cleavers- everything had started to go missing, as if kitchen implements had developed a sudden taste for the exertions of the outside world.’

‘The plague had spread through the rest of the country; Brother was drinking brother’s blood.’

‘The dog walking under the bullock cart can claim that he is pulling the cart. We should Mountbatten believe he is the architect and we the masons completing the building in sync with the architect’s plan.’

‘Gandhi did say that we leave India to god, or to anarchy, Wavell had ended.’

‘Man’s greatest folly, that one people is less than another - less pure, less holy, less enlightened.’

‘Where does a wave on the ocean begin? ‘ he said. ‘Where does it form a welt on the skin of the sea, to swell and expand and rush towards shore? ‘

‘But isn’t that funny? That each person should be chasing the tail of the person in front of them, when no one is coming first or last. In other words, when it comes to happiness nothing is better or worse- there is no definitive state.’