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we cannot blame the British for saddling us with this system, though it is their ‘Mother of Parliaments’ our forefathers sought to emulate. First of … - Shashi Tharoor
" "we cannot blame the British for saddling us with this system, though it is their ‘Mother of Parliaments’ our forefathers sought to emulate. First of all, the British had no intention of imparting democracy to Indians; second, Indians freely chose the parliamentary system themselves in a Constituent Assembly.
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Shashi Tharoor (Malayalam: ശശി തരൂര്; Born 9 March 1956 in London) is an Indian politician, author, journalist, and a former diplomat who is currently serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala since 2009. He also currently serves as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology.
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धर्म’ शब्द को अब अंग्रेज़ी शब्दकोशों में भी शामिल किया जाने लगा है। (उदाहरण के लिए, चैम्बर्स ट्वेंटिएथ सेंचुरी डिक्शनरी में ‘धर्म’ का अर्थ ‘राइशियसनेस दैट अण्डरलाइज़ द लॉ’ दिया गया है।) इसे एक सन्तोषजनक अर्थ माना जा सकता है। दरअसल, अंग्रेज़ी का कोई भी इकलौता शब्द (फेथ, रिलिजन, या लॉ) ‘धर्म’ के पूरे अर्थ को अभिव्यक्त नहीं कर सकता।
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Joseph Conrad, no radical himself, described colonialism as ‘a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly’. As he wrote in 1902, ‘The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.’ Rabindranath Tagore put it gently to a Western audience in New York in 1930: ‘A great portion of the world suffers from your civilisation.’ Mahatma Gandhi was blunter: asked what he thought of Western civilization, he replied, ‘It would be a good idea’.
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