Harsh Mander
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“Never, never be afraid to do what is right. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look away. —Martin Luther King Jr”
― Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
― Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
“The Indian countryside has transformed into this wasteland of near-terminal despair and increasingly impossible survival, by new technologies, forced integration with globalized markets, and an uncaring state. For a sector which employs half the population, contributes a sixth of the GDP, the state allocates as little as a twentieth of total public investment. It is no wonder, then, that tens of thousands of farmers each year poison or hang themselves; and millions of the young flee, when they can, to wherever they can, while they still can. Unequal”
― Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
― Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
“I do not understand how private schools claim that the entry of disadvantaged children will dilute merit; all that it will do is to breach the complacency and conceit of privilege. There”
― Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
― Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
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