Surya

“Alex von Tunzelmann’s clever start to her book Indian Summer made my point most tellingly: ‘In the beginning, there were two nations. One was a vast, mighty and magnificent empire, brilliantly organized and culturally unified, which dominated a massive swath of the earth. The other was an undeveloped, semifeudal realm, riven by religious factionalism and barely able to feed its illiterate, diseased and stinking masses. The first nation was India. The second was England.”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”
― Margaret Mead

“Liberty is the daughter of authority properly understood. For to be free is not to do what one pleases; it is to be the master of oneself, it is to know how to act within reason and to do one's duty.”
― Émile Durkheim

“[Movies are] like writing history with lightning.”
― Woodrow Wilson