Arun Shourie (1941) Indian journalist and politician
About the book banning of Ram Swarup's Understanding Islam through Hadis. quoted from Koenraad Elst. Ayodhya and after: issues before Hindu society. 1991. Ch. 12.
“Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.”
— Colum McCann, Zoli
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