The global pandemic is the perfect opportunity to reframe how we value labour and the role of work in society

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In Pankaj Mishra’s book from 2017 aptly titled “Age of Anger,” the writer takes us on a journey through the birth of the European Enlightenment and its role in defying the status quo through the emergence of a new class of public intellectuals along the lines of Voltaire, Montesquieu and Rousseau.