If India had a Latin version of the American motto E Pluribus Unum, it would be E Pluribus Pluribum. - Shashi Tharoor

कश्मीर की लाला रुख़ (1317-1372) भी भक्ति रस की सन्त कवयित्री के रूप में ख़ूब लोकप्रिय रही थीं। वे भगवान शिव की भक्तिन थीं और दिन-रात उन्हीं के भक्ति रस में डूबी रहती थीं। उन्होंने मुसलमानों और हिन्दुओं में भेद करने से इनकार करते हुए अपनी रचनाओं में खुलकर इन भावनाओं को व्यक्त किया।

Indian nationalism is the nationalism of an idea, the idea of an ever-ever land, emerging from an ancient civilization, shaped by a shared history, sustained by pluralist democracy.

Democracy, Ganapathi, is perhaps the most arrogant of all forms of government, because only democrats presume to represent an entire people: monarchs and oligarchs have no such pretensions. But democracies that turn authoritarian go a step beyond arrogance; they claim to represent a people subjugating themselves. India was now the laboratory of this strange political experiment. Our people would be the first in the world to vote on their own subjugation.