India is not an underdeveloped country but a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay. - Shashi Tharoor

An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a second Partition: and a partition in the Indian soul would be as bad as a partition in the Indian soil. For my sons, the only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts. An India neither Hindu nor Muslim, but both. That is the only India that will allow them to continue to call themselves Indians.

हरि स्तुति’ में एक स्त्रोत है, जिसका अर्थ है — “तीनों लोकों के स्वामी विष्णु, जिन्हें शैव शिव के रूप में, वेदान्ती ब्रह्म के रूप में, बौद्ध बुद्ध के रूप में, नैयायिक प्रधान के रूप में, जैन महावीर के रूप में और कर्मकाण्डवादी धर्म-सिद्धान्त के रूप में पूजते हैं, हमारी कामना पूरी करें।

Indians paid, in other words, for the privilege of being conquered by the British.