Surabhi Dalal

“Improv masters learn like babies: dive in and imitate and improvise first, learn the formal rules later. “At the beginning, your mom didn’t give you a book and say, ‘This is a noun, this is a pronoun, this is a dangling participle,’” Cecchini told me. “You acquired the sound first. And then you acquire the grammar later.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“Our work preferences and our life preferences do not stay the same, because we do not stay the same.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“When we kill people, we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

“Colonialism was made possible, and then sustained and strengthened, as much by cultural technologies of rule as it was by the more obvious and brutal modes of conquest that first established power on foreign shores… Colonialism was itself a cultural project of control.”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India