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“The common man feels that 99% of politicians are frauds and they don’t know anything, but we say around 40% are good. They are trying hard to do something, but there are constraints.” In”
― Connect The Dots
― Connect The Dots
“A Constitution is] The set of the most important rules and common understandings in any given country that regulate[s] the relations among that country’s governing institutions and also the relationship between those governing institutions and the people of that country.’1”
― Landmark Judgments That Changed India
― Landmark Judgments That Changed India

“Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship. (Mukherjee”
― The God Who Failed: An Assessment of Jawaharlal Nehru's Leadership
― The God Who Failed: An Assessment of Jawaharlal Nehru's Leadership
“Eminent jurist Fali S. Nariman very aptly describes it8: ‘Originally an English transplant with Anglo-Saxon roots, the legal system in India has grown over the years, nourished in Indian soil; what was intended to be an English oak has turned into a large, sprawling Indian banyan whose serial roots have descended to the ground to become new trunks.’ This huge banyan tree of our legal system must give shelter to us, including the humblest and weakest person, in our pluralistic society.”
― Landmark Judgments That Changed India
― Landmark Judgments That Changed India

“Miss a particular turning and you have to go several kilometres in the wrong direction, until you find your way back. Kind of like what happens in life. You make a plan, even a roadmap. But there could be a vehicle coming at you at full speed from right around the bend. Vinayak”
― Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
― Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
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