“Modernity is kind of a tradition and tradition itself is not a rulebook. It's a dialogue and a dialectical process just as tradition affects us, we too affect tradition and culture, and we change it.”

“In the West, people learn through the Socratic tradition. The education system was influenced by Western philosophy and is based on constantly questioning the knowledge thats handed to you and arri...”

“A generation is not defined by the options it has but by the choices it makes.”

“We think that history is created in the big things, in the big events, but history is also created in the small things that we do every day, in the personal choices we make to think or not to think...”

“The internet in general and social networking sites in particular are making people more reclusive than social.”

“The characters so many Bollywood actresses portray are ultimately flat, uncomplicated, two-dimensional stock characters that typically range between the girl-next-door and the diva. They may be fla...”

“In his history of solitude, Anthony Storr writes about the importance of being able to feel at peace in one's own company. But many find that, trained by the Net, they cannot find solitude even at ...”

“A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: "it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet.”

“... and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.”