Before You Judge India, Read the Whole Book
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Before You Judge India, Read the Whole Book
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Yesterday, in a press conference in Oslo, a journalist asked a question. And she asked something similar again to the Prime Minister of India after the press briefing. I am not getting into about protocol or the way she asked. I am thinking about the gap. The gap between what she was asking and what could possibly have been answered inside the shape of her question.
Because she was asking about a country. And the trouble is — India is not a country. Not in the way the word is usually meant.
Let me ask you something before we start. When you hear the word "India" — what is the first picture in your mind? Hold it. Don't judge it. Just notice it.
Because wherever that picture came from — a news clip, a headline, a fifteen-second reel — I want to spend the next thirty minutes showing you how small the frame was. And how much was standing just outside it.