Ayushi

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

“In India the choice could never be between chaos and stability, but between manageable and unmanageable chaos, between humane and inhuman anarchy, and between tolerable and intolerable disorder. ASHIS NANDY, sociologist, 1990”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

“perhaps the most motley assemblage in any quarter of this orb’; to quote another, it was ‘a true centre of the diverse varieties and types of mankind, far surpassing the mixed nationalities of Cairo and Constantinople’. The fifth chapter was geographical, an argument for Bombay’s physical isolation, with the sea and the mountains separating it from the Marathi-speaking heartland.”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore