The Cost of Apathy: Why India Ignored Its Own Prophets

​"In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee, advise and lead... The entire destination of the country depends upon it."
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
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Icons Instead of Teachers: Why India Cheered the Defiance But Missed the Warning

The Cost of Apathy: Why India Ignored Its Own Prophets

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​I know it's hero worship but let me confess this: Arundhati Roy is the walking perfection of the finest human character alive on this revolving planet—Earth. She is made of diamond, yet remains humble to humanity. She reminds me of Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 360–415 AD).

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Arundhati Roy's latest memoir delves into her complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy — a pioneering educator and women’s rights activist who won a landmark case securing equal inheritance rights for Syrian Christian women in Kerala. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/arundhati-roy-mother-mary-comes-to-me-memoir-mvbeaygp?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ArundhatiRoy #MotherMaryComestoMe #memoir #TheGodofSmallThings
"Twin millstones and their mother. Numb millstones. What they had done would return to empty them, but that would be Later. Lay Ter. A deep-sounding bell in a mossy well. Shivery and furred like moth's feet." Damn, #TheGodOfSmallThings has some good lines. #ArundhatiRoy