Dinesh Jayaraman

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Dinesh.

https://www.goodreads.com/dineshjayaraman

Book cover for The Promise
I don’t have a life of my own; I have only feelings. My experiences were never important—not during the course of my life nor even on the threshold of death. Instead, the lives of others have become mine.
Loading...
Salman Rushdie
“Fictions could be as powerful as histories, revealing the new people to themselves, allowing them to understand their own natures and the natures of those around them, and making them real. This was the paradox of the whispered stories: they were no more than make-believe but they created the truth, and brought into being a city and an army with all the rich diversity of nonfictional people with deep roots in the actually existing world.”
Salman Rushdie, Victory City

Salman Rushdie
“For the rest of his life that was what he said to anyone who asked—and there were people who asked, because the world is a cynical and suspicious place and, being full of liars, thinks of everything as a lie. Which is what Vidyasagar’s story was.”
Salman Rushdie, Victory City

“In many elite Hindu families in the Delhi region and the North-west, until about the time of Partition it was the custom for boys to learn Persian and Urdu and be literate in the Persian script, while the girls were taught Devanagari. Among elite Sikh families too, the boys would similarly be schooled in Persian and Urdu and know the Persian script, while the girls were taught Gurmukhi, the Punjabi script in which the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book, is written.”
Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

“Languages are like those canaries that go with miners into dark paths that are full of danger. Like those canaries, they die first, long before we humans can sense that the air has begun to go bad. When languages die, it is an omen, of things to come that are still beyond our range of vision.”
Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

Ursula K. Le Guin
“Terran man was clay, red dust. Athshean man was branch and root. They did not carve figures of themselves in stone, only in wood.”
Ursula K. Le Guin , The Word for World Is Forest

52739 The Aspiring Polymath's Society — 612 members — last activity Sep 04, 2021 11:15PM
For readers who love to learn for learning's sake, this group features regular group reads of nonfiction from a variety of fields, or fictional reads ...more
year in books
Sahithy...
264 books | 139 friends

Benly
783 books | 34 friends

Akshath...
533 books | 210 friends

Praneesh K
3,911 books | 511 friends

Nikhil ...
235 books | 76 friends

aj
aj
813 books | 144 friends

Akshay ...
323 books | 169 friends

Sharath...
159 books | 215 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Dinesh

Lists liked by Dinesh