Karl Marx in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte observed that man makes history not “out of the whole cloth” but of “such as he finds at hand”

xSpeaking at the 150th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed to have fulfilled Sardar Patel’s wishes by abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution, thereby “integrating” Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of India. Lest there be any doubt, his trusted lieutenant, Union home minister Amit Shah, drove the point home that while Sardar Patel had united the nation, Narendra Modi had completed his “unfinished task”.

Karl Marx in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte observed that man makes history not “out of the whole cloth” but of “such as he finds at hand”. And in doing so “they anxiously conjur

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