Amitav Ghosh Quotes
I'd Been Surprised By The Depth Of Emotion That Was Invested In That Curiously Archaic Phrase 'great Power'. What Would It Mean, I'd Asked Myself, To The Lives Of Working Journalists, Salaried Technocrats And So On If India Achieved 'great Power Status'? What Were The Images Evoked By This Tag?
Now, Walking Through This Echoing Old Palace, Looking At The Pictures In The Corridors, This Aspiration Took On, For The First Time, The Contours Of An Imagined Reality. This Is What The Nuclearists Wanted: To Sign Treaties, To Be Pictured With The World's Powerful, To Hang Portraits On Their Walls, To Become Ancestors. On The Bomb They Had Pinned Their Hopes Of Bringing It All Back.
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