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“Victors climbing atop body-mountains, raising tattered flags, the flags that are required by nationhood. Mouths opening to roar: Azadi! Liberated! At their feet corpses left for vultures to gorge on. Wounds, mutilations thrust in the faces of those who survive to declare: this is Man, intrinsically, this is his history: look!” — Anita Desai
Victors climbing atop body-mountains, raising tattered flags, the flags that are required by nationhood. Mouths opening to roar: Azadi! Liberated! At their feet corpses left for vultures to gorge on. Wounds, mutilations thrust in the faces of those who survive to declare: this is Man, intrinsically, this is his history: look!