“Ethics and honesty, [are] rare amongst scholars working on the Indian past.”
Shereen Ratnagar Indian archaeologist
quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2007). Asterisk in bharopiyasthan: Minor writings on the Aryan invasion debate.
“Full stories are as rare as honesty.”
— Zadie Smith, book White Teeth
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