Ashwin Pai

“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, semi-feudal 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, Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

“The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Pakistan was created by Jinnah’s will and Britain’s willingness’—not by Nehru’s wilfulness.”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

“It was as if Boeing built one plane and, without doing a single flight test, told airline passengers, “Hop aboard.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup