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Sanjay Sipahimalani
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Books, etc.
“You must change your life”: wrote about Neel Mukherjee’s ‘Choice’, an assemblage of three stories that probes the dilemma of meaningful action in a world designed to promote the agenda of the powerful.
They should now have a Met Gaza, in which politicians strut about in blood-drenched clothes.
Waiting for them to make a correction: it’s actually the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Tomorrow for the young the poets exploding like bombs,
The walks by the lake, the weeks of perfect communion;
Tomorrow the bicycle races
Through the suburbs on summer evenings. But today the struggle.
- Auden, ‘Spain’
Operation Pushkin: a vast, coordinated series of thefts of rare 19th-century Russian books from libraries across Europe.
Looky here, America
What you done done–
Let things drift
Until the riots come.
Now your policemen
Let your mobs run free.
I reckon you don’t care
Nothing about me.
- Langston Hughes, Beaumont to Detroit: 1943
"Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them."
- B.R. Ambedkar, Columbia University alumnus