Abbas Amanat

And I very much hope it eventually emerges, even I'm hoping at the same time there's not going to be a very strong leadership as it was the case in the past.

This was amazing.

Well, a history that's, as I've said in the start of my book, I say it's the history of a nation which has learned a huge amount from the outside world by force of its geography.

It was always located somewhere that people would invade.

or come for trade, or something happened to it that this diffused culture continued to, and they were not afraid of learning or adopting, as they do right now today.

This is a very different society.

Thank you.