Political

“Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.”
-Salman Rushdie


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One of Indira Gandhi's slogans was borrowed for our new urinal for school. On the wall that we faced when we stood in a line to pee, someone had written in pencil: "Aaapka bhavishya aapke haath mein hai" (You hold the future in your hand). This was the way in which politics entered our adolescent universe- as a private part of human anatomy.
-Kumar, 88


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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
-Mahatma Gandhi, 1931


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"It's easy to preach on a full stomach....If I didn't have to work for a living and support a family, then I can be on my high horse. Most of these kids are just trying to make ends meet."
-Arundhati Roy, according to Kumar


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"The lumpen display of power in the Bihar legislature and elsewhere is not wholly removed from the schoolyard in which the boy had made an obscene remark about my sister."
-Kumar, 94


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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
-Gandhi


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