Humans are animals of habit.

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world

In India the new government - the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a 'Hindu Nation' - they're bigots. Butchers. Massacres are their unofficial election campaigns - orchestrated to polarise communities and bring in the vote.

Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

The writer is the midwife of understanding.