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AN INDEPENDENT ORGAN THERE ARE PEOPLE in the world who—thanks to a lack of intellectual acuity—live a life that is surprisingly artificial. I haven’t run across all that many, but there are certainly a few. And Dr. Tokai was one of them. In
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“Even as it sends missions to the moon and boasts of being a nuclear power, India has so far failed to ensure that nobody goes hungry. There have been cases where foodgrains were left out in the open to rot while the godowns of the state-run Food Corporation of India were rented out to liquor companies to store alcohol. So,”
― Hello Bastar
― Hello Bastar
“The human collective knows far more today than did the ancient bands. But at the individual level, ancient foragers were the most knowledgeable and skilful people in history.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Sex is child’s play; but gender is serious business.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.2”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
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