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The year 1979 was the first time in Indian history when the number of Hindi newspaper readers overtook the number of English newspaper readers.
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All my father's works have been written in prison. I recommend prison life not only for aspiring writers but for aspiring politicians too.
Indira Gandhi, 1962.
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Jun 13
Or gazing at the country landscape through a train window.
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
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Jun 13
In one year the right form of education will emerge. Give one year to build a new country, a new Bihar.
~ Jai Prakash Narayan in 1974
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Jun 13
Useless fact.
Exactly 54 years ago, in the month of June, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan came to Shimla along with his daughter Benazir. Many young boys of the town had a crush on her.
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Jun 13
Nixon to his staff in August 1971:
While the Pakistanis are straightforward, sometimes extremely stupid, the Indians are more devious, sometimes so smart that we fall for their line.
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Jun 12
WOMEN sit, or move to and fro—
some old, some young;
The young are beautiful—
but the old are more beautiful than the young.
Walt Whitman
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Jun 10
I wish to write a book on the subject.
Jun 10
everyone wants a panjaban until it’s time to deal with her nakre
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Jun 10
"When Nehru goes, the government will become a military dictatorship."
~ Aldous Huxley, writing about India in 1961.
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Jun 4
I wrote a book on old people. In hindsight, I feel, MS Word would have been a convenient option.
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Jun 4
NOW is eternity.
We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense.
But why must it be?
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Jun 4
*Gods. It's India.
Jun 4
If God ever came back to India, the first thing He'd do is leave again.
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Jun 4
The Hobbit.
what was the first book you ever fell in love with?
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