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So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly prevails, so long as citizens can speak and write in the language of their choosing, so long as there is an integrated market and a moderately efficient civil service and army, and — lest I forget — so long as Hindi films are watched and their songs sung, India will survive

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It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

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The heart hoped that India would survive, but the head worried that it wouldn't. The place was too complicated, to confusing—a nation, one might say, that was unnatural.

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Born: April 29, 1958 (age 67)
Bio: Ramachandra Guha is an Indian historian and writer whose research interests include environmental, social, political and cricket history. He is also a columnist for The Telegraph and Hindustan Times.
Known for:
  1. India After Gandhi (2007)
  2. Gandhi Before India (2013)
  3. A corner of a foreign field (2002)
  4. Environmentalism (2000)
  5. The Unquiet Woods (1989)

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