"Art cannot last in a vacuum. For books to be written, and for them to be read, we need schools. We need an enlightened state. We need institutions of learning, and we also need roads, and parks, and hospitals. What we have above is not Tory talk, contemptuous of ordinary people and their needs, but actually a discourse of thoughtfulness and concern. With this understanding, the notion of the mentor giving another person a powerful sense of literary vocation gets amplified. It touches on broader aspects of life, it spreads out, and it becomes all-encompassing. The concept is in its essence democratic and social. It seens in the provision of free milk and orange juice the promise of protected people."
-Kumar, 119













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