“Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and fundamentalism. Globalization suits the Indian elite to a T. Fundamentalism doesn't.”

— Arundhati Roy

Source: Articles, Interview with Arundhati Roy, by David Barsamian (July 16, 2007)

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Indian novelist, essayist 1961

Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) American physician, poet and educator

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Shashi Tharoor (1956) Indian politician, diplomat, author

The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone. p. 64.

“Each painting is linked to a fundamental drama.”

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“As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.”

Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) British academic historian and Marxist historiographer

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“Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher… Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.”

Peter Agre (1949) American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

“One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.”

Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937) Former dictator of Ethiopia

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“That doesn't feel like politics to me. Stuff like equality feels much more fundamental. I feel like everyone is equal.”

Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor

Interview on French talk show Quotidien (26 April 2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUlTS87WGkw&t=682

“Indigenous musicians in our backyard, who are also world-famous and as successful –people like hariprasad Chaurasia or Bhimsen Joshi. Why? Because they remain as desi as desi ghee. They dress Indian, talk Indian, walk Indian, eat Indian (paan, horror of horrors!), think Indian, feel Indian.”

Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938) Indian bansuri player

On the overzealous attention given in India to Zubin Mehta who was just born a :parsee in India but has lived overseas most of his life and comes to India occasionally. Quoted in [Shobhaa De, Superstar India: From Incredible To Unstoppable, http://books.google.com/books?id=8yX2H_8UmfUC&pg=PT41, 2 April 2009, Penguin Books Limited, 978-0-14-192374-1, 41–]

“Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and fundamentalism. Globalization suits the Indian elite to a T. Fundamentalism doesn't.”

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