Shashi Tharoor

Quotes

1. Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.

2. 

   India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

3. 

   The instinctive Indian sense that nothing begins and nothing ends. We are all living in an eternal present in which what was and what will be is contained in what is, or to put it in a more contemporary idiom, that life is a series of sequel to history.

4. 

   On "Priya Duryodhani": She was a slight frail girl, with a thin tapering face like kernel of a mango and dark-brown eyebrows that nearly joined together over high-ridged nose, giving her to look of a desiccated school teacher at an age when she was barely old enough to enroll at school. She had dark and lustrous eyes. They shone from that finished face like blazing gems on a fading backcloth, flashing, questioning.

5. 

   This is my story of the India I know, with its biases, selections, omissions, distortions, all mine.... Every Indian must for ever carry with him, in his head and heart, his own history of India.

6. 

   The vehicles of human politics seem to run off course, but the site of the accident turns out to have been the intended destination.

7. 

   The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

8. 

   Basic truth about the colonies, Heaslop. Any time there's trouble, you can put it down to books. Too many of the wrong ideas getting into the heads of the wrong sorts of people. If ever the Empire comes to ruin, Heaslop, mark my words, the British publisher will be to blame.

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