The cost of living
by Arundhati Roy · first published 1999
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Describes how India's ambitious dam projects created suffering along with modernization.
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"The Cost of Living" by Barry Schwartz has a whole chapter about education that seems to explain this kind of situation very well.
on “MIT students open up about stress” ↗…simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.” ― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
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