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If the major ideological battle of the 20th century was between capitalism and communism, in the 21st century it is likely to be between cosmopolitanism and nativism. On this ground, I hope that the views of Gandhi and Thackeray yield to ...more
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“It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that people are not as smart as dogs think they are.And he wants to see it time and again.In the fog of ambiguities and mysteries,he desperately searches for truths because truth usually shows humanity in a poor light”
Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

Jean Klein
“The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.”
Jean Klein

J.M. Coetzee
“I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one’s bones.”
J.M. Coetzee

“The Silk Roads advanced science, mathematics, literature, art, languages, and religions, and became a singular force that shaped the diversity of societies and cultures across the continent and beyond. And all of this came about because of Bombyx mori, the little, blind, flightless moth, whose thin strand of salivary secretion—moth spit—led to a creation of a web of routes that knitted together East and West, passing thousands of kilometers east of the prime meridian and creating some of the richest chapters in human history.”
Robert N. Wiedenmann, The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History

Shehan Karunatilaka
“Good sits in a corner, collects a cheque, and pays a mortgage. Evil builds empires.”
Shehan Karunatilaka

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