Ash Sarkar

Journalist

1992-04-17

Quotes by Ash Sarkar

• When you're a second- or third-generation migrant, your ties to your heritage can feel a little precarious. You're a foreigner here, you're a tourist back in your ancestral land, and home is the magpie nest you construct of the bits of culture you're able to hold close.

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• It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is unequivocally respected.

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• The launch of the National Health Service in 1948, one of the world's foremost examples of something being decommodified in the interest of the social good, was met with nothing less than horror by those with vested interests in the private provision of medicine.

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• Here's the problem with downplaying the radical nature of decommodification: when you empty something of political content, politicians are free to wield symbols as they please.

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• Feminism isn't about curating or policing the boundaries of womanhood.

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