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Walking With The Comrades QUOTES

Walking With The Comrades QUOTES

1 " I soon learned that Dandakaranya, the forest I was about to enter, was full of people who had many names and fluid identities. It was like balm to me, that idea. How lovely not to be stuck with yourself, to become someone else for a while. "

― Arundhati Roy , Walking With The Comrades

2 " The first step towards reimagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those a different imagination - an imagination that is outside of Capitalism as well as Communism. An imagination that has an altogether different understanding of what constitutes happiness and fulfillment. "

― Arundhati Roy , Walking With The Comrades

3 " [Are we] far more comfortable with the idea of poor people killing themselves in despair than with the idea of them fighting back? "

― Arundhati Roy , Walking With The Comrades

4 " But for now, it even has a Gandhian approach to sabotage; before a police vehicle is burnt for example, it is stripped down and every part is cannibalized. The steering wheel is straightened out and made into a bharmaar barrel, the rexine upholstery stripped and used for ammunition pouches, the battery for solar charging. Should I write a play I wonder- Gandhi Get Your Gun. Or will I be lynched? "

― Arundhati Roy , Walking With The Comrades

5 " Jungle post arrives. Two biscuits for me. A poem and a pressed flower from Comrade Narmada. A lovely letter from Maase. (Who is she? Will I ever know?) Comrade "

― Arundhati Roy , Walking With The Comrades