“A essência da educação é a natalidade, o fato de que seres nascem para o mundo”, escrevia Hannah Arendt em “A Crise Na Educação” (artigo do livro “Entre o Passado e o Futuro”, p. 223). O nascimento de uma nova geração, tão destacado por Arendt, coloca de fato o...

Publicado em: 12/05/17

“Capitalismo: Uma Estória de Assombração” Saiba mais sobre o mais recente livro de ensaios da escritora indiana Arundathi Roy (2014, 125 pgs., Haymarket Books) “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”Arundhati Roy no Fórum Social Mundial de Porto...

Publicado em: 28/05/15

“If there is any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate-change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle every day to protect their forests, their mountains...

Publicado em: 31/03/15

“Today, when we produce more food than ever before, more than one in ten people on Earth are hungry. The hunger of 800 million happens at the same time as another historical first: that they are outnumbered by the one billion people on this planet who are overweight. Global...

Publicado em: 21/10/14

Photos from Arundhati Roy’s Broken Republic INDIA: THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DEMOCRACY? By E.C. Moraes @ Awestruck Wanderer  1998: while we were reaching the end of the 20th century, India was testing nuclear weapons. The civilization which gave to the world masters of wisdom such as Gandhi and Sidarta Gautama, Ambedkar and Tagore, was...

Publicado em: 05/06/14

“She is one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time. I was thinking about what makes her a really great writer, a really great person, and a really great rebel: someone who listens more than she talks. Someone who goes to find where the silence is, and tries...

Publicado em: 25/05/14

“Maconha serve de remédio deste sempre. O primeiro tratado de ervas medicinais que se conhece, o Pen Tsao, concebido há 4.700 anos na China, já inclui referência destacada à cannabis, e há registros de usos médicos em praticamente todas as civilizações antigas. Extrato de cannabis era remédio naÍndia desde a Antiguidade e, quando...

Publicado em: 19/12/11