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Stressing on the importance of learning how to teach humanities, she said: "When you kill the humanities, you kill the culture.... KOLKATA: Eminent scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak said her teachers at the erstwhile Presidency College helped her to "elaborate" on what she read, rather than "merely apply" or "follow" them. "In the third session of the morning titled 'Remembering Mahasweta Devi', organized in collaboration with Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, Spivak recalled how close she was once to the author before growing apart. Whatever her actual declared politics, whatever her feudality of sentiments might have been, I believe this woman was capable of producing something which creates a future." Humanities are imaginative activism..