Harsh Mander > Quotes

“Never, never be afraid to do what is right. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look away. —Martin Luther King Jr”
― Harsh Mander, Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India

“The Indian countryside has transformed into this wasteland of near-terminal despair and increasingly impossible survival, by new technologies, forced integration with globalized markets, and an uncaring state. For a sector which employs half the population, contributes a sixth of the GDP, the state allocates as little as a twentieth of total public investment. It is no wonder, then, that tens of thousands of farmers each year poison or hang themselves; and millions of the young flee, when they can, to wherever they can, while they still can. Unequal”
― Harsh Mander, Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India

“I do not understand how private schools claim that the entry of disadvantaged children will dilute merit; all that it will do is to breach the complacency and conceit of privilege. There”
― Harsh Mander, Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India