Shriram Krishnamurthi on Nostr: He was actually Czech (Tomáš Sträussler), which put his famous quote ("It's not ...

He was actually Czech (Tomáš Sträussler), which put his famous quote ("It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting") in perspective; he escaped as a Jewish refugee. He got to the UK via India, where his mom (appropriately) ran a Bata shoe store! Photo from Hermione Lee's biography.