“Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?”

—  Marc Andreessen

Source: On the Indian rejection of Free Basics, Twitter, February 20, 2016 - http://thenextweb.com/in/2016/02/10/marc-andreessen-just-offended-1-billion-indians-with-a-single-tweet/

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