Abhishek Rai

“the school building had been comprehensively repaired two decades ago. ‘It was badly damaged in the rains and there was no place for our children to study. We all came together and repaired the building,’ he said. When I visited, the floors were all gone, the walls were cracked, the yellow paint long peeled off, the roof leaky, and the whole structure covered in dust.”
― Josy Joseph, A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India

“The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, has made it every Indian child’s right to access full-time elementary education of satisfactory and equitable quality until the age of fourteen. Estimates vary, but India has a shortage of almost half a million teachers and over eight million primary school-age children still do not attend school.”
― Josy Joseph, A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India

“Democracy in India is only a ‘top dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic’.”
― Josy Joseph, A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India

“you need to know whether you do not like the pursuit of money and wealth because you genuinely do not like it, or because you are rationalizing your inability to be successful at it with the argument that wealth is not a good thing because it is bad for one’s digestive system or disturbing for one’s sleep or other such arguments.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder