Prateekshya Ayushi

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein

“The whole discussion now underway on revolutionary forms in Russia and in China boils down to the judgement to be made of the historical phenomenon of the "appearance" of industrialism and mechanisation in huge areas of the world previously dominated by landed and precapitalist forms of production.

Constructing industrialism and mechanising things is supposedly the same as building socialism whenever central and "national" plans are made. This is the mistaken thesis.”
― Amadeo Bordiga, Murdering the Dead: Amadeo Bordiga on Capitalism and Other Disasters

“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

“Eating is an agricultural act," Wendell Berry famously wrote, by which he meant that we are not just passive consumers of food but cocreators of the systems that feed us. Depending on how we spend them, our food dollars can either go to support a food industry devoted to quantity and convenience and "value" or they can nourish a food chain organized around values--values like quality and health. Yes, shopping this way takes more money and effort, but as soon as you begin to treat that expenditure not just as shopping but also as a kind of vote--a vote for health in the largest sense--food no longer seems like the smartest place to economize.”
― Michael Pollan