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“The attraction between us was palpable.”
― Karishma Upadhyay, Parveen Babi: A Life

“the fires of a nation about to be born, she went out in the fiery blaze of a nation at war with itself.”
― Sagarika Ghose, Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister

“interest in Vintcent’s proposal. Homi Mehta, however, directed Vintcent to approach the Tatas. Vintcent met JRD within a month of the latter getting his license. The two men hit it off instantly and India’s aviation industry was on the verge of take-off.”
― Nandini Vijayaraghavan, Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World’s Largest Democracy

“Operating a state-of-the art fleet was Air India’s forte. The airline had acquired Boeing 747s, which were named after Indian emperors (Shahjahan, Ashoka, Rajaraja and Vikramaditya). The Constellations were named after princesses, the Super Constellations after the queens and the Boeing 707s after Himalayan peaks.”
― Nandini Vijayaraghavan, Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World’s Largest Democracy

“Limited (NACIL) was formed by merging Air India and Indian Airlines. In 2010, NACIL was renamed Air India. This merger precipitated the fall of India’s national carrier.”
― Nandini Vijayaraghavan, Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World’s Largest Democracy

“Jet operated forty-two aircrafts. Sahara was third with its fleet of twenty aircrafts.”
― Nandini Vijayaraghavan, Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World’s Largest Democracy

“Dividend payments for domestic airlines, except for IndiGo, is a mirage.”
― Nandini Vijayaraghavan, Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World’s Largest Democracy

“India does possess the fourth longest rail network in the world, following the US, China and Russia.”
― Nandini Vijayaraghavan, Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World’s Largest Democracy

“23 November 1985, the cover story of Bombay’s weekly tabloid, Blitz, pronounced, ‘BIG 3 IN MAHA POLYESTER WAR … It’s a Mahabharata War, or rather Mahapolyester War in Indian big business style … There are only Kauravas, no Pandavas and no Lord Krishna. The reason is that none is without blemish.”
― Nandini Vijayaraghavan, Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World’s Largest Democracy

“were Parsis and among the first families of Indian business.”
― Nandini Vijayaraghavan, Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World’s Largest Democracy

“at the behest of L&T’s chairman, M.N. Desai. It was not just altruism that propelled Dhirubhai to acquire a stake in L&T. The project execution capabilities of the engineering major were valuable to RIL. As the single largest shareholder, Dhirubhai replaced Desai as L&T’s chairman and Mukesh and Anil secured board seats.”
― Nandini Vijayaraghavan, Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World’s Largest Democracy

“The outstanding debt of six conglomerates—Lanco, Jaypee, GMR, Videocon, GVK and Essar—was even more excessive than ADAG in relation to their respective EBITDAs. However, ADAG had the highest outstanding debt among the ten conglomerates. ADAG was thus billed as India’s most indebted company by the media.”
― Nandini Vijayaraghavan, Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World’s Largest Democracy

“The world is still pretty damn sex-negative globally. (Thanks to patriarchy, religion, colonialism and multiple other cultural and societal forces that have sought to surveil and control people’s sexual and reproductive choices for centuries.)”
― Leeza Mangaldas, The Sex Book: A Joyful Journey of Self-Discovery

“We are all made of the same parts, just organized in different ways.”
― Leeza Mangaldas, The Sex Book: A Joyful Journey of Self-Discovery

“We internalize these totally unrealistic beauty standards and then have terrible self-esteem, constantly dissatisfied with our bodies and feeling as if we’re not good enough.”
― Leeza Mangaldas, The Sex Book: A Joyful Journey of Self-Discovery

“While stuff like pop culture, porn and magazine covers have misled many of us into believing that boobs should be perfectly round and symmetrical, guess what, most boobs are not.”
― Leeza Mangaldas, The Sex Book: A Joyful Journey of Self-Discovery

“scabulous adj. proud of a certain scar on your body, which is like an autograph signed to you by a world grateful for your continued willingness to play with her, even if it hurts.”
― John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

“How many of your snapshots could easily be replaced by a thousand identical others? Is there any value left in taking yet another photo of the moon, or the Taj Mahal, or the Eiffel Tower? Is a photograph just a kind of souvenir to prove you’ve been someplace, like a prefabricated piece of furniture that you happened to have assembled yourself?”
― John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

“dive deep into things without worrying about making a splash. From slip, to move or fly away in secret + fast, fortified”
― John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

“trueholding n. the act of trying to keep an amazing discovery to yourself, fighting the urge to shout about it from the rooftops because you’re afraid that it’ll end up being diluted and distorted, and will no longer have been created just for you.”
― John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

“Maybe your self-mythology is no different than any other mythology. It’s a story that changes in the telling, evolving over time. Whatever resonates will stay, and what doesn’t will fall away. To pick away at the literal truth is to miss the point of it, miss the joy of it. So go ahead and build your myth. Try to tell a good story about yourself that captures something true, whether or not the facts agree.”
― John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

“fitching v. intr. compulsively turning away from works of art you find frustratingly, nauseatingly good—wanting to shut off the film and leave the theater, or devour a book only in maddening little chunks—because it resonates at precisely the right frequency to rattle you to your core, which makes it mildly uncomfortable to be yourself. From bitching, markedly good + fitch, the European polecat, an animal that often cripples its prey by piercing its brain with its teeth, before storing it alive in its burrow to return and eat sometime later.”
― John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

“weaknesses are accepted by those who love us, our vulnerabilities often nestled in their empathy, till they can endure it. Once it is beyond their endurance, they move on to a different plane and that is what life is all about for many, if not all.”
― Indrani Mukerjea, Unbroken

“Therefore, we need to protect all sentient beings very much. Also, we must recognize that we share the same two basic wishes: the wish to enjoy happiness and the wish to avoid suffering.”
― David Michie, The Dalai Lama's Cat

“I call it "Higher Power" not to exclude any cultures/religions, as I feel everyone is pointing in the same direction, with different names, from different perspectives.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Where all was free, is free no more.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“We were originally naked in the garden of paradise, "but unashamed." After the serpent of forced assimilation, "we were taught shame upon our natural beauty.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Nature gives reproductive rights at puberty.
The same oppressors that make it hard to raise kids by
limiting resources, make it hard to make personal choices.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“People on the streets are dehumanized the same way settlers dehumanized the Indigenous, to steal the land of abundance at gunpoint, to tax the land to the fullest.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Effort is subjective, suffering is optional.”
― Shasvathi Siva, Divorce is Normal