White Wash Quotes

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Petina Gappah
“This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education is one that the whites would value, and as whites do not value local languages at the altar of what the whites deem supreme. So it was in colonial times, and so it remains, more than thirty years later.”
Petina Gappah, The Book of Memory

Abhijit Naskar
“Maps of the world are whitewashed,
history of the world is whitewashed,
ethics of the world are whitewashed,
knowledge of the world is whitewashed.”
Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Abhijit Naskar
“Education that doesn’t reflect plural humanity, raises only goodlooking jungle rubbish.”
Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat