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Damn! Spotted again.

I'll need a day more to respond methodically. @Blackbeardsgoldfish writes a very dense prose that needs careful reading, and at the moment, I am planning to keep it to a side until tomorrow.

Love the idea but I probably shouldn't be spending money on it. Thanks for the heads-up.

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It's a tweet. On Twitter.

To be honest, my replies were getting very tangled. It is better to wait for tomorrow and to respond systematically - the point being that interesting responses are possible, and, from a very specific country point of view, relevant.

The other thing is that a government represents an easy picture of a different country and the beliefs of the people that live within it, even though it isn't representative of everyone. I would like it to read The other thing is that a government represents a mythical picture of an imaginary...

It's the translation. I'll wait to read the new version.

This is the situation in India today, a run-away rejection of the intellectual. It was Hanns Johst, not Reichsmarschall Goering, or Himmler, or Goebbels, who said, in the text of a play, "Whenever I hear the world culture, I reach for my gun." India, as we speak.

What needs to be added in some way is that nothing, no majority, no claims of a higher justice other than the corporeal, no other-worldly imperative call, can over-ride the rights of the individual.

I'm really not sure that this was logically valid, but that is because I'm really not sure what is meant by these two sentences.

Cheer up. There's only 51 years between us.

This is where, I believe, Indian intelligentsia have let down their country and people in fundamental ways, and left them unable to overcome their affiliations to vote as they should.

This was a point famously made by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. All sub-continentals will get the reference and will know the person.

WHAT?

Your posts are very chewy, and need time to be mulled over.

I WISH!!!

I groaned, almost with pain, at the essential meaning of this sentence. Are you a political scientist by education?

Please continue. This is fascinating. I am stepping out for an hour; please bear with me and with any delayed response.