She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need to be put together. Otherwise people might not read the signs.

The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and fundamentalism.