Vinaya Raghavan

“I have my stars in the sky, but oh for my little lamp unlit in my house.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Life is perhaps lighting up a cigarette
in the narcotic repose between two love-makings
or the absent gaze of a passerby
who takes off his hat to another passerby
with a meaningless smile and a good morning”
― Forough Farrokhzad, Another Birth - Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

“Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“When foreigners come into a nation, the best way is to make them no longer foreign. That is to say, let us marry our young together and let there be children. War is costly, love is cheap.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Peony: A Novel of China