"Shortcuts that brush off human rights seem good on paper, but the eventual conflict both hurts worker's employment and indefinitely blocks companies' investments."

"The only purpose of using terms like devadasi is to induce trauma and keep women from courtesan castes away from discourse on the performing arts."

"The visions of who should be safe in a city always focus on able-bodied, cishet, middle-class women."

"None of us see this as a social problem that deserves attention and participation because, well, how many of us are choosing hospitals by virtue of how well they treat their workers?"

"If you live with prejudice that's so commonplace, to the point where people aren't even aware of how irrational their bias is, it threatens all aspects of your life."

"We cannot have a conversation about abolition without talking about annihilating caste, or ending the patriarchy."

"Law, in general, is supposed to be a deterrent, which is hilarious, because when has the law deterred anybody?"

"You can have a lot of things on paper, but what about the actual implementation at a grassroots level?"

"Do people even know what ‘sustainability’ translates to in Hindi, or any other regional language?"

"Now, you actually see young, enthusiastic people leading protests against resource exploitation."

"I think farmers are in a great position to educate people who sit at home and don't really care about what's going on around them."

"It gives me hope that there is a generation that's not going to just be like business as usual."

"The way we're taught medicine in India is very paternalistic, because we're not taught concepts like 'patient autonomy.'"

"Once women band together, they become formidable opponents," says the president of the National Network of Sex Workers.

"...The dominant narrative is something like 'Who will marry you if you do a Ph.D?' in our society."

"A Dalit woman reporter will fight for more stories about marginalized communities because she's most likely dealt with the same issues herself."

"As a poet, you have no duty to Instagram."

"If a Brahmin family says 'caste no bar,' they're not looking for someone from a lower caste community. They could probably go a sub-caste lower or within the sub-caste."