Denying the poor access to knowledge goes back a long way. The ancient Smriti political and legal system drew up vicious punishments for sudras seeking learning. (In those days, that meant learning the Vedas.) If a sudra listens to the Vedas, said one of these laws, ‘his ears are to be filled with molten tin or lac. If he dares to recite the Vedic texts, his body is to be split’. That was the fate of the ‘base-born’. The ancients restricted learning on the basis of birth. In a modern polity, where the base-born have votes, the elite act differently. Say all the right things. But deny access. Sometimes, mass pressures force concessions. Bend a little. After a while, it’s back to business as usual. As one writer has put it: When the poor get literate and educated, the rich lose their palanquin bearers.
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TRAVERS Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own... P. L. TRAVERS My mom is a sculptress. P. J. HARVEY I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels... P. J. HARVEY I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way ... P. J. HARVEY There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi... P. J. HARVEY I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ... P. J. HARVEY I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph... P. J. HARVEY I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. P. J. HARVEY My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ... P. J. 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HARVEY There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises. P. J. HARVEY People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B... P. J. HARVEY I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music. P. J. HARVEY I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it di... P. J. HARVEY I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information... P. J. HARVEY I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recogni... P. J. HARVEY I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca... P. J. HARVEY I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply. P. J. HARVEY Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops ... P. G. WODEHOUSE It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thou... P. G. WODEHOUSE I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I... P. G. WODEHOUSE Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks. P. G. WODEHOUSE He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to... P. G. WODEHOUSE Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, b... P. G. WODEHOUSE Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to l... P. G. WODEHOUSE He was white and shaken, like a dry martini. P. G. WODEHOUSE She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel. P. G. WODEHOUSE I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. P. G. WODEHOUSE Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge t... P. G. WODEHOUSE Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up ... P. G. WODEHOUSE