War Talk (2003)
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Independence itself came to us as what Gandhi famously called a "wooden loaf'-a notional freedom tainted by the blood of the thousands who died during Partition.
— Arundhati Roy
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "Arundhati Roy" (Quotes)
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