Chitharanjan

“The past closer, more comparable, a way to justify present action.”
― Thant Myint-U, The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma

“They said a spectre was haunting Europe. 'Do you know what a spectre is?' the ideologues asked the beedi-rollers.
'We know, comrades,' Koomankavu's new proletarians replied. 'We have djinns and poothams here.'
'You are not listening, comrades.”
― O.V. Vijayan, Legends of Khasak

“For my part, I had no objection to sex being subject to market forces.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

“We have come to believe that men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not particularly enjoy are bad people unworthy of love, care or assistance from their communities. It is as if we have collectively acquiesced to our own enslavement.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory