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GATE 2017 · CS2 - Afternoon
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"We lived in a culture that denied any merit to literary works, considering them important only when they were handmaidens to something seemingly more urgent - namely ideology. This was a country where all gestures, even the most private, were interpreted in political terms." The author's belief that ideology is not as important as literature is revealed by the word:
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