Anusha Gurumurthy

“If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love.”
― Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me

“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present.”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel

“The principles he stood for and the way in which he asserted them were always easier to admire than to follow”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel

“Democracy, Ganapathi, is perhaps the most arrogant of all forms of government, because only democrats presume to represent an entire people: monarchs and oligarchs have no such pretensions. But democracies that turn authoritarian go a step beyond arrogance; they claim to represent a people subjugating themselves. India was now the laboratory of this strange political experiment. Our people would be the first in the world to vote on their own subjugation.”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel