“Sometimes even Satyajit Ray was criticized for portraying only the poverty of Bengal. That poverty is not the whole story of India, just a part.”
Above three quotes by Amos Gitai in I got to know about India from Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak films: Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, 13 November 2013, 13 December 2013, Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/bengali/news-interviews/I-got-to-know-about-India-from-Satyajit-Ray-and-Ritwik-Ghatak-films-Israeli-filmmaker-Amos-Gitai/articleshow/25651595.cms,
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Kunnumpuram, K. (ed) (2007) World Peace: An Impossible Dream? , Mumbai: St Pauls
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Bryan Stevenson (1959) American lawyer, social reformer and academic
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Robert Hunter (author) (1874–1942) American sociologist, author, golf course architect
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Context: Associated production would be rendered impossible. Profit, rent, and interest would be no more. There would be no diversified division of labor. Cities and industrial communities would dwindle and disappear. Society as a whole would return... to the actual poverty of an agricultural and handicraft age. A community of Indians in America before the invasion of the whites had as much social organization as Tolstoy seems to have felt necessary for mankind. "The Anarchists are right in everything..." he writes, except "only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution." The entire world would be broken into atoms—each an individualist standing alone.
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1926
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Post-presidency (1989–2004)