Jaikumar Velayudham

“Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.”
― John le Carré, Call for the Dead

“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Whenever a dangerous object attacks you, there are 2 ways of dealing with it “Fight or flight”. This is our body's natural mechanism to face acute stress.”
― Dr.Jaikumar Velayudham, Madayya and Sadayya in the, "The mysteries of Mamallapuram": The Pallavan Saga