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There is hope: in a fiercely independent Supreme court, a crusading free press and an absolute commitment to representative democracy. It's time to slip those last reins of rundown colonial institutions.

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England struck me as a very miserable place, dark and drab, without the bright skies of India.

There is blind secularism in this country [India]. If anyone speaks about Hinduism in this country, they are branded as Hindu fundamentalists.

I am very proud to have worked with the BBC for 30 years. I had hoped to continue to work for the corporation but that is no longer possible.

I hate to lose my connection with the great city of Calcutta.

It is not too difficult to find people in that country [Ireland] crying over what they have lost.

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