Nirad C. ChaudhuriI understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight
About This Quote
The power of estrangement is a mysterious, but powerful force. In this quote, Ramachandra Guha defines the importance of estrangement. He says that “The basis for all large-scale social reforms is a social movement that seeks to change the way things are organized and organized people.” The changes must be made from a place of estrangement. Guha uses a personal example to explain how important it is to discover the root causes of a problem and start from there. He says, “When I was nine years old I suddenly realized that my greatest enemy was not those who hated me but those who didn’t know me, because it was only they could harm me!”
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