We have no word for “Nation” in our language. - Shashi Tharoor

The obscurantist and atavistic state that Narendra Modi’s BJP wants to create would look nothing like the one that made India the scientific superpower of the ancient age. It is enough to make one shed a tear. One can only hope that there are no peahens around.

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.

महान दार्शनिक और भारत के राष्ट्रपति डॉ. सर्वपल्ली राधाकृष्णन ने हिन्दुओं को परिभाषित करते हुए लिखा था — ‘एक साझे इतिहास, साझे साहित्य और साझी सभ्यता वाली विशिष्ट सांस्कृतिक इकाई’।