Karthik

“He said all truly good writing—fiction or nonfiction—has a heartbeat, a life force that comes from the writer, like an invisible cord connecting them to the reader. Without it, the work is dead on arrival.”
― 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

“Without a reader, a book was a blank slate, an object with no breath or pulse of its own. But once a book became part of someone’s world, it came to life, with a past and a present—and, if properly cared for, a future.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books