Himanshu Rai

“Cordon sanitaire. Isolation. Quarantine. These are age-old concepts that human beings have been putting into practice since long before they understood the nature of the agents of contagion, long before they even considered epidemics to be acts of God. In fact, we may have had strategies for distancing ourselves from sources of infection since before we were strictly human.”
― Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

“To choose wisely, we must unlearn much of the history we have been taught. Many of us learned a version of our history as one of inevitable progress, goodness, and triumph. Many of us learned the inverted version, that our history is one of inevitable sin, racism, conquest, greed. Neither of these is true, because both versions airbrush out our own free will. The truth is, America is a battle, a struggle for justice. And we choose, every generation, who wins.”
― Matt Stoller, Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

“my life is not guided by reason; it is ruled, rather, by the inertia of habitual motion.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

“जब शेर और बकरी एक ही घाट पानी पीने लगें तो समझ लो कि शेर की नीयत और बकरी की अक़्ल में खोट है।”
― Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi, Khoya Pani