Our societies have experienced the magic that occurs when pluralism flourishes and the marginalized assume their proper powers. But loss stalks those victories, as millions revolt against change and supremacies resurface. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
Taking offense is, in fact, one of the few things that brings us together. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
If you think America is great, remember that every person telling you otherwise may carry a clue to making it greater. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant country was suddenly waking up. And I came home, back to America, in 2009 after telling that story and writing a book about that. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
I live in places where, although I don’t take public stands, I’m surrounded by liberals, and I’ve spent a lot of time in this country talking to people who have very different views than the people I live around and trying to see kind of what’s in common beneath those conversations. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents’ stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
