An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.
“To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.”
“The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.”