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Pretty remarkable how well Shri Aurobindo’s newspaper writing holds up, though perhaps this more a testament to the lack of progress in indian political thought...
“The barefaced hypocrisy of our enthusiasm for the Queen-Empress, — an old lady so called by way of courtesy, but about whom few Indians can really know or care anything — could serve no purpose but to expose us to the derision of our ill-wishers.”
Aurobindo on the notion that the Congress was a national body:
“The old school of politics was chiefly remarkable for a blithe indifference to facts and an extraordinary predilection for vague abstractions which could not possibly apply to the conditions with which our political action had to deal.”
Plus ca change...
Plus ca change...
