Amritesh Mukherjee
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A group of blind men stumble upon an elephant. One grips the trunk, another presses a leg, a third pulls the tail. Each insists he knows the whole truth, unaware that they possess a mere fragment. In the parable, blindness isn’t the problem; certainty is. India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent is Audrey Truschke’s attempt to step back and see the bigger picture without pretending it’s complete.