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The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 100 Great Works 1100-1900

by B.N. Goswamy

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“The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”
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“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
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