“One problem with our democracy is that a rigid class and caste hierarchy coupled with gross gender inequality has kept large sections of our population traditionally without a voice. But having no voice does not mean having no brain! On the contrary the voiceless have much to say and we can learn so much from their ways of seeing and thinking. Feelings of humanity seem to survive much better amongst the powerless than among the affluent and powerful.”

Filmmaker as activist - The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2004/05/16/stories/2004051600410500.htm (May 16, 2004)

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