Prashant Wadnere

“In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

“[The princess] looks out and sees the humble musician with his lute. But unless the musician turns out to be a prince in disguise, this story cannot end well.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste

“Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development.”
― Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom