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To want to be ahead, and to celebrate and mythify this endeavor, is indeed one of the most powerful impulses of modernity itself.

— Amitav Ghosh The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016)

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Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.

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Just as novels have come to be seen as narratives of identity, so too has politics become, for many, a search for personal authenticity, a journey of self-discovery.

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Thailand has railways and the British never colonised the country,... In 1885, when the British invaded Burma, the Burmese king was already building railways and telegraphs. These are things Indians could have done themselves.

the great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.

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