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“Unless the republic is reclaimed, the time will come when all of us will be one incorrect meal, one interfaith romance, one unfortunate misstep away from being extinguished. The mobs that slaughtered ‘bad’ Muslims will eventually come for Hindus who are not ‘good’. India’s tragedy is that just when it is faced with an existential crisis, there exists no pan-Indian alternative to the BJP.”
K.S. Komireddi, Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India

Luke Burgis
“It’s easy to be an armchair contrarian. It’s hard to take contrarian action: to question the dominant narrative, to be honest with yourself, to tell the truth even when the immediate outcome is pain”
Luke Burgis, Wanting: Mimetic Desire: How to Avoid Chasing Things You Don't Truly Want

Paul Scott
“Look, it’s the same color as mine. Don’t be fooled by that. People are. But prick an imbecile and he’ll bleed crimson. So will a dog.”
Paul Scott, The Day of the Scorpion

Luke Burgis
“We’re more threatened by people who want the same things as us than by those who don’t.”
Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

B.R. Ambedkar
“Nationality is a social feeling. It is a feeling of a corporate sentiment of oneness which makes those who are charged with it feel that they are kith and kin. This national feeling is a double edged feeling. It is at once a feeling of fellowship for one’s own kith and kin and an anti-fellowship feeling for those who are not one’s own kith and kin. It is a feeling of “consciousness of kind” which on the one hand binds together those who have it, so strongly that it over-rides all differences arising out of economic conflicts or social gradations and, on the other, severs them from those who are not of their kind. It is a longing not to belong to any other group. This is the essence of what is called a nationality and national feeling.”
B.R. Ambedkar, Pakistan or Partition of India

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