Congress gained rule after independence and ruined (ruining) as well

• The Congress mimicked Indian society, its confusions, its hopes, its hypocrisy and its sense of plurality. Its genius lay in being not an ideologically uniform party but a conglomeration and celebration of shifting viewpoints.

• D K Barooah’s claim that ‘India is Indira and Indira is India’ was a stupid but a more lethal imitation of ‘What is good for General Motors is good for America’. Each statement while repeatedly quotable was disastrous in terms of its politics.

(The lost art of dissent by Shiv Viswanathan)