Author: William Dalrymple
“Today it is impossible to have integrity or honesty and to stay in politics in India…The process you have to go through is so ugly, so awful, it cannot leave you untouched. Its nature is such that it corrodes, it eats up all that it most precious and vital in the spirit. It acts like acid on ones integrity and sincerity. You quickly find yourself doing something totally immoral and you ask yourself: “What next?”
“The Age of Kali”