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If I were an Indian Hindu

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Oct 30, 2008
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"Some countries are united by a common language; India has around fifteen major languages and numberless minor ones. Nor are its people united by race, religion or culture…Does India exist? If it doesn't, the explanation is to be found in a single word: communalism. The politics of religious hatred." —Salman Rushdie in "The Riddle of Midnight: India, Au…

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