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Meet the Savarnas: Indian Millennials Whose Mediocrity Broke Everything

by Ravikant Kisana

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Jan 01, 2026 09:21AM

“Although it was shadowy and dark, Bim could see as well as by the clear light of day that she felt only love and yearning for them all, and if there were hurts, these gashes in her side that bled, then it was only because her love was imperfect and did not encompass them thoroughly enough, and because it had flaws and inadequacies and did not extend to all equally.”
― Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day

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“Another piece of advice: I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work. So you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool. There are other people around who can do the mediocre meat and potatoes work that anybody can do. So let them do that. You make the art that only you can make. You tell the stories only you can tell.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

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“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
― Anna Akhmatova

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“You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

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“Some years ago a writer not much older than I am now told me (not bitterly, but matter-of-factly) that it was a good thing that I, as a young writer, did not have to face the darkness that he faced every day, the knowledge that his best work was behind him. And another, in his eighties, told me that what kept him going every day was the knowledge that his best work was still out there, the great work that he would one day do.

I aspire to the condition of the second of my friends, I like the idea that one day I'll do something that really works, even if I fear that I've been saying the same things for over thirty years. As we get older, each thing we do, each thing we write reminds us of something else we've done. Events rhyme. Nothing quite happens for the first time anymore.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

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