The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts. - Shashi Tharoor

भारतीय समाज में जाति संसाधनों और अवसरों के वितरण को नियन्त्रित करती है। जाति आपके जीवन में पूरी तरह मौजूद रहती है, भले ही यह सीधे-सीधे दिखाई न दे, क्योंकि आपकी सामाजिक और आर्थिक पूँजी आपकी जाति का ही उत्पादन होती है।

I was not blinded by faith, but the encounter was indeed astonishing at several levels. In our private talk, Sai Baba uttered insights about my family and myself that he could not possibly have known....He waved his hand in the air and opened his palm. In it nestled a gold ring with nine embedded stones, a navratan. He slipped it on my finger, remarking, "See how well it fits. Even a goldsmith would have needed to measure your finger."

The naval expansionism of the southern Chola and Pallava empires took Indian influences directly to Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia and Cambodia. Later,