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...I’m always shocked by the lack of historical awareness on the part of the average American. Many of the people who have come here did so to forget history, to turn their backs on history.

— Suketu Mehta

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Essentially what I said was that people are coming to rich countries from poor countries not because they want to, but because rich countries had stolen the futures of poor countries.

At the age of fourteen I had experienced a miracle. I turned on a tap, and clean water came gushing out.

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (2004)

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