[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fbROp20PbeKlu04FFplpoR60xF3CM3YlKlqYkSHKYHL8":3,"$fz1LP1KGe1PbRwoadT3YvryttIQOoXozm4edCT49qoDQ":14},{"author":4,"tags":13},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":10,"slug":11,"image_url":12},24977,"Satish Kumar","S",110,"Satish Kumar is an Indian editor, writer, and activist born on 9 August 1936 in Dungargarh.\n\nKumar has moved through notably different modes of public and private life. He was once a monk, a role that preceded his later work as a journalist, opinion journalist, and member of editorial staff. He holds Indian citizenship and works in the English language. In recognition of his contributions across these fields, he received the Jamnalal Bajaj Award.\n\nKumar has been associated with several overlapping social and political movements. His engagement with the nuclear disarmament movement placed him among those working against the proliferation and use of nuclear weapons. He has also been connected to environmentalism and the degrowth movement, both of which address the relationship between human activity and the natural world. His involvement with the simple living movement extends this pattern further, linking personal conduct to broader questions of how societies consume and sustain themselves.\n\nThese associations — nuclear disarmament, environmentalism, degrowth, and simple living — form the recurring framework within which Kumar has operated as an activist, editor, and writer. 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So happiness is not in accumulation of material goods, it’s in sharing and caring.",6,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":25,"quote_text":26,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":27,"source":28,"quote_tag":29,"commentary":12},3417940,"The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":31,"quote_text":32,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":33,"source":34,"quote_tag":35,"commentary":12},3417910,"Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":37,"quote_text":38,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":39,"source":40,"quote_tag":41,"commentary":12},3417903,"The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don’t get satisfaction from your work.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":43,"quote_text":44,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":45,"source":46,"quote_tag":47,"commentary":12},3417888,"We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":49,"quote_text":50,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":51,"source":52,"quote_tag":53,"commentary":12},3417858,"It is only an illusion that time is running out. This is where the problem of fear arises. We become anxious that “I don’t have enough time and I have to do everything quickly.” We need to turn our attention away from results, achievements and outcomes.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":55,"quote_text":56,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":57,"source":58,"quote_tag":59,"commentary":12},3417833,"I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge – not only about measurement – not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":61,"quote_text":62,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":63,"source":64,"quote_tag":65,"commentary":12},3417808,"In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we’re ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":67,"quote_text":68,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":69,"source":70,"quote_tag":71,"commentary":12},3417793,"Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, “We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life.”",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":73,"quote_text":74,"author_id":5,"source_id":19,"has_image":20,"author":75,"source":76,"quote_tag":77,"commentary":12},3417779,"Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don’t get the recognition they deserve.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"currentPage":79,"totalPages":80,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":81},1,11,10]