It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.
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I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.
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 sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.
The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'
The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
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