Karthik

“Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural. —Alexander Smith”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“shruti texts do not have a human agent as a composer. Examples of shruti texts are Vedas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads.”
― Bibek Debroy, The Bhagavad Gita For Millennials

“Hinduism has many major texts, some of the shruti variety and some of the smriti variety.”
― Bibek Debroy, The Bhagavad Gita For Millennials

“Books were safe. They had plots that followed predictable patterns, beginnings, middles, and endings. Usually happy, though not always. But if something tragic happened in a book, you could just close it and choose a new one, unlike real life, where events often played out without the protagonist’s consent.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books