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“By the time I was an adult and a working journalist, the India I grew up in had been transformed radically. So had its cultural moorings. In an environment exploding with mobiles and McDonald’s, economic and social ascent became the key drivers of dreams, creating a country within a country; one in which citizenship was no profound, or even, argumentative pact with nation-building but almost a corporate membership in a rewards programme designed to give maximum returns. Liberalization and rapid growth had also played midwife to the birth of a neo middle-class consumed by its own daily battles for survival and self-fulfilment.”
― This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines
― This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines
“If the past is a foreign country, it is a shockingly violent one. It is easy to forget how dangerous life used to be, how deeply brutality was once woven into the fabric of daily existence. Cultural memory pacifies the past, leaving us with pale souvenirs whose bloody origins have been bleached away.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
“One-third of the world’s poorest 1.2 billion people live in India where 1.4 million children die before their fifth birthday—making this the highest percentage in the world. Despite a reduction in the official poverty figures and an improvement in various human development indices, one in four children is still malnourished and 3,000 children die every day from poverty. This is the India that we would prefer not to see, the India that inconveniently comes in the way of slogans and news headlines of India Shining, India galloping forward, India being welcomed to exclusive clubs of the world’s rich and powerful nations.”
― This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines
― This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines
“When gentlemen agreed to a duel, they were fighting not for money or land or even women but for honor, the strange commodity that exists because everyone believes that everyone else believes that it exists.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
“We could all learn from the dignified but strong way in which Sartaj summed up his feelings about Dadri. His words contained within them both the tragedy and the promise of our country’s future. ‘I just want to say a small thing and make a plea. We have all read the song, we all know the words,’ he told me. ‘Saare jahan se accha, Hindustan hamara, mazhab nahin sikhata, aapas mein bair rakhna... If we could just follow the sentiments expressed in this song, we will be fine as a country.’ The words were heartbreaking for the sheer generosity of spirit they displayed. They showed perhaps the only way in which the fault lines of this unquiet land can be mended.”
― This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines
― This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines
On Paths Unknown
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"On paths unknown, we tread with wonder. Through a glass darkly, to brave new worlds and beyond we go." We seek to explore and do critical reading fro ...more
Agatha Christie Lovers
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We are reading her books from the first one published to the last one published each month. However, do not let that stop you from reading them out of ...more
Indian Literature and the Arts
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This group is created to talk about Indian literature, be it in English or regional languages, whether or not translated into English and books about ...more
Classic Short Stories
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— last activity Jan 26, 2016 11:30PM
A group to read and discuss short stories. One short-story per week/fort-night, followed by a hearty discussion. Typically the stories will be "class ...more
Exceptional Books
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This book club is ONLY for books that are WRITTEN VERY WELL and have a GREAT STORY LINE. We ask that each member shelve at least 2 exceptional books ...more
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