Vinaya Raghavan

“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

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

“For thousands of years, violent men have been able to tell their victims that those victims owe them something. If nothing else, they “owe them their lives” (a telling phrase) because they haven’t been killed.”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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