Ashish Khetarpal Quotes

“Chains that melt into bones become bones.”
― Ashish Khetarpal, Pushing Gods Out

“A garden is man’s attempt to domesticate nature. And a man is man’s attempt to domesticate himself.”
― Ashish Khetarpal, Pushing Gods Out

“Where did Shanti find the will? It must have been in the garden. An ant and a bird argue over the right to flight. The bird spreads her wings and flies away; the ant sits on an autumn leaf and waits for the wind.”
― Ashish Khetarpal, Pushing Gods Out

“When the mind asks endless questions without receiving any concrete answers, it starts attacking the body. It was either that or Shanti’s water had broken.”
― Ashish Khetarpal, Pushing Gods Out

“Boys become men, and men become stubborn. They insist on carrying all the burdens by themselves when they can easily share them with their women and daughters. We don’t distinguish between mules and hinnies when we load them, do we? So basically, we have given more equality to donkeys than to one another as people. And we are still none the wiser.”
― Ashish Khetarpal, Pushing Gods Out

“You have to become a thief in order to rob the thief who robbed you.”
― Ashish Khetarpal, Pushing Gods Out

“It is hard to follow the course of change when you have been changing along with it. It is only when there is some degree of constancy that an observer can note the variations.4. It is hard to follow the course of change when you have been changing along with it. It is only when there is some degree of constancy that an observer can note the variations.”
― Ashish Khetarpal, Pushing Gods Out