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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.

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In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.

Culture, Subjectivity, View, Views, Writing
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India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

Country, Developed, History, People

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

Crippling, Fate, Knowledge, Philosophical, Transient, Wise

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

Born, Forever, India, Reborn

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Meant, Meant To Be, Only Time, Place, Wrong, Wrong Time

Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

Dare, Fundamentals, Heresy, Identity, Identity Politics, Vedas
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