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

“There was one question, however, which Inciarte had asked him and he could not answer. Why was it that he had lived while others had died? What purpose had God in making this selection? What sense could be made out of it? ‘None,’ replied Father Andrés. ‘There are times when the will of God cannot be understood by our human intelligence. There are things which in all humility we must accept as a mystery.”
― Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

“Indians paid, in other words, for the privilege of being conquered by the British.”
― 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