Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures. - Terry Eagleton - Quotesmemo.com

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We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.

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Terry Eagleton

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

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Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.

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