The Idea of India | Renuka Rajaratnam

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November 10, 2013

Updated: November 10, 2013 15:44 IST




The idea of India

RENUKA RAJARATNAM






The HinduSalman Rushdie. Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash


Our literary fiction of the 1980s and 1990s endorses the Nehruvian narrative of pluralism.


“Bad times,” mused Salman Rushdie in his Imaginary Homelands,
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