“He dared you with Olympian majesty and … tossed out his formulations with a merciless disregard for sentiment…”

— Girilal Jain

M.J. Akbar, This tongue had bones, 1993. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p.218

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