AN Roy
AN Roy
Anami Narayan Roy was the Director General of Police, Maharashtra, India and the former Police Commissioner of Mumbai...
people patriotism brain
Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
past done destroying
Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.
business war hegemony
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.
people come-up crisis
The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution
horse trojans used
NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.
beautiful writing world
Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.
inspirational motivational feminist
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
motivational faith optimistic
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
running people abuse
Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.
dream country fighting
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular reforms and quell the mutinies. Corporate Globalization-or shall we call it by its name?-Imperialism-needs a press that pretends to be free. It needs courts that pretend to dispense justice.
acceptance spells
Acceptance spells death to a writer.
life romantic lost-love
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
fighting giving empathy
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
hands needs joining
We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.