"Or as Arvind Ghosh puts it with some hyperbole, it is the Sangh Parivar’s strategy to “snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”, to ruin projects which were bound to bring success if only they were pursued with firmness and conviction."
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Elst, K. Decolonizing the Hindu Mind. citing Ghosh: Sangh Parivar’s Strategy: Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory.
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Arvind Ghosh
Arvind Ghosh (Bengali: অরবিন্দ ঘোষ), also spelled as Aurobindo Ghosh, was an Indian-born scholar, writer and publisher in the United States.
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