Himanshu Rai

“With today’s regimes, which struggle to formulate a single ideology, the idea that one lives in a world full of conspiracies becomes the worldview itself. Conspiracy theory replaces ideology with a mix of self-pity, paranoia, self-importance, and entertainment.”
― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

“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

“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