India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possib…

Salman Rushdie
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India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2010). Midnight's Children, p.150, Random House
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