A handful of Britishers kicked us because we were slaves and hated each other. And a handful of evil businessmen and politicians continue to kick us because we are slaves still to our littleness, our petty personal interests and prejudices, our meanness that is mountain-high and which we dare not scale to see what lies beyond the summit. We ought not to claim independence any more than we have given it to each other and, thus, we lie prostrate, a people severed from its hoary heritage, full of irreverence and ill-feeling towards each other, a nation full of slaves. Is this dharma? Is the civilisation of the land we belong to and are we the legatees of its culture in the truest sense?
Written by Sugata Bose
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