Gopal MS

“Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded, a period that lasted no more than a hundred years.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

“Electronic Nocturne The TV goes dead, killing all the newscasters. Go, loud satraps of the night, leave us alone with darkness and ourselves.”
― Ranjit Hoskote, Central Time

“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. ”
― Rabindranath Tagore