In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cit….

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant..

The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble..

To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We t….

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and ….

It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with ….

It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's the end of that. Then….

How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the m….

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature..

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has ….

If you want to control somebody, support them. Or marry them..

I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm an educated person means that I can't be on that….

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their ind….

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness….

It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked ….

The world's 'freeest' country has the highest number in prison..

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less..

Things can change in a day..

What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were ….

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments u….

The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speak….