“‘Today the United States is Number One economy, China is Number Two; by 2020 China will be Number One.’ Tomorrow, he was sure, belongs to him. It was not his self-confidence that bothered me as much as the question he then posed: ‘Where will India be?’”
“India has not handled its success well. Instead of the greater responsibility that should come with greater power and wealth, we have chosen to swagger. We take grave offence at the most innocuous of comments. We cannot stand anyone making fun of our foibles or our accent. We are ready to use our diplomatic resources if some advertisement in a far away country spoofs our ways. The world is laughing at our pompousness and this makes us more furious.”
“Why hadn’t I gotten it before? I had seen Amadeus several times over the years, but this is how it is with movies, with books, with everything — you need the eyes to see what is to be seen. But even so, how could I still have thought that it was about Mozart.”
