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The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.'

This century, the 21st century, will be the Indian century - and I really believe that.

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

India is now changing and regaining its lustre, and it is coming of age.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.