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“BRW [Black & Red Ware] is the Pan-Indian Pot and Sangam literature is the Pan-Indian Literature. The Pot Route that links Indus and Vaigai was made of clay, overlaid with burnt bricks and embellished with copper. It is the red-topped road to Tamil antiquity, and the colour was a deep Dravidian Red.”
― R. Balakrishnan, Journey of A Civilization: Indus to Vaigai

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“Therefore, one can observe true chastity, natural chastity, and independent chastity among the people only when these cruelties are removed and never through compulsions, a different canon for the two sexes, and commandments written by the mighty for the weak that produce only slavish chastity and enforced chastity.”
― Periyār, பெண் ஏன் அடிமையானாள்?

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“எங்காவது பூனைகளால் எலிகளுக்கு விடுதலை உண்டாகுமா? எங்காவது நரிகளால் ஆடு, கோழிகளுக்கு விடுதலை உண்டாகுமா? எங்காவது வெள்ளைக்காரர்களால் இந்தியர்களுக்குச் செல்வம் பெருகுமா? எங்காவது பார்ப்பனர்களால் பார்ப்பனரல்லாதவர்களுக்கும் சமத்துவம் கிடைக்குமா என்பதை யோசித்தால் இதன் உண்மை விளங்கும். அப்படி ஒருக்கால் ஏதாவது ஒரு சமயம் மேற்படி விஷயங்களில் விடுதலை உண்டாகி விட்டாலும்கூட ஆண்களால் பெண்களுக்கு விடுதலை கிடைக்கவே கிடைக்காது என்பதை மாத்திரம் உறுதியாய் நம்பலாம்.”
― Periyār, பெண் ஏன் அடிமையானாள்?

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“If the virus and the inequalities it creates were ever to leave us, America’s extremities would fade. They wouldn’t disappear—no country on Earth can claim that—but some things would no longer be considered normal. There would no longer be those who are taught Latin and those who are barely taught to read. There would no longer be too many people who count their wealth in the multimillions and too many who live hand to mouth. A space launch would not be hard followed by a riot. White college kids would not smoke weed in their dorms while their black peers caught mandatory sentences for selling it to them. America would no longer be that thrilling place of unbelievable oppositions and spectacular violence that makes more equitable countries appear so tame and uneventful in comparison. But the questions have become: Has America metabolized contempt? Has it lived with the virus so long that it no longer fears it? Is there a strong enough desire for a different America within America?”
― Zadie Smith, Intimations

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“... neither the metaphor of ‘melting pot’ nor of ‘salad bowl’ can accurately explain Indian culture. My preferred metaphor is that of the Rain Forest. The ‘tropical rain forest’ characteristically has a number of layers, each with a variety of flora and fauna adapted for life in that particular layer. The layers include the uppermost ‘emergent’ layer that rises above to form the canopy of the forest, the ‘under-story’ and finally the ‘forest floor’, the foundational core. This emergent layer has its roots in the forest floor that is full of shrubs, vines and fungi... A ‘bird’s-eye view’ cannot reveal this rootedness, the underlying substratum, the under-stories and the forest floor.
If the metaphor of ‘tropical rain forest’ is applied to the Indus Valley Civilization, the citadels, the rulers, and the rich merchants with their maritime wealth, the urban structure and its finesse are comparable with the ‘emergent canopy’. Yet the bulk of the demography was at the root – the substratum, from which the mature urban cities emerged... The nature of its religion, the cultural practices, cockfights and bull-vaulting visually represent the ‘under-story’ of the IVC.”
― R. Balakrishnan, Journey of A Civilization: Indus to Vaigai

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