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In our youth, we saw no ungainly paunches, no scrawny bodies among the law-keepers. Nor
“we have to bear in mind that culture is not necessarily transmitted in proportion to people's numbers. One charismatic personality will suffice to release a chain reaction. One”
― Africa and the Blues
― Africa and the Blues
“for every 100 in funding for e-commerce companies, 40 went to firms founded by an Agarwal”.”
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“We are neither leftists nor rightists. We are typists.” The post-script to that story is that he said this not meekly, as most would assume, but assertively – because no government, left or right, could run without typists.”
― Boombay: From Precincts To Sprawl
― Boombay: From Precincts To Sprawl
“You have to work to rearrange people’s desires. What they want has to change. What they do will follow.”
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“Blues is both a literary and a musical genre, and the two realms are inseparably linked by the very forces that also bind together music and text in most African cultures: semantic and grammatical tone, phonetic structure leading to offbeat phrasing of melodic accents (Waterman 1952; Kubik 196ia: 157-58. 1988a: 149-52), and the concept-widespread in African cultures-that the meaning of a song derives from its lyrics rather than from "melody," "rhythm," or chord sequences.”
― Africa and the Blues
― Africa and the Blues
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