All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes. - Shashi Tharoor

I, for one, dearly hope that a British prime minister will find the heart, and the spirit, to get on his or her knees at Jallianwala Bagh in 2019 and beg forgiveness from Indians in the name of his or her people for the unforgivable massacre

The vehicles of human politics seem to run off course, but the site of the accident turns out to have been the intended destination.

I do not look to history to absolve my country of the need to do things right today. I seek to understand the wrongs of yesterday, both to grasp what has brought us to our present reality and to understand the past for itself.