Umesh Vyas

“Writing in 1959 – a decade and more after Independence – an Indian editor who was bitterly opposed to Nehru was constrained to recognize his two greatest achievements – the creation of a secular state and the granting of equal rights to Untouchables.”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

“There’s nothing but what’s bearable as long as a man can work,” he said to himself; “the natur o’ things doesn’t change, though it seems as if one’s own life was nothing but change. The square o’ four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man’s miserable as when he’s happy; and the best o’ working is, it gives you a grip hold o’ things outside your own lot.”
― George Eliot, THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF GEORGE ELIOT (Special Kindle Illustrated and Annotated Edition) All of George Eliot's Unabridged Novels AND Complete Book-Length ...

“We must believe in free will – we have no choice. Isaac Bashevis Singer”
― Bruce M. Hood, The Self Illusion: Why There is No 'You' Inside Your Head

“Peter Kemp observed that ‘Literature owes an enormous debt to Henry James’s bowels.’ As the correspondence revealed, the young Henry suffered from chronic constipation. To alleviate it his parents dispatched him on a grand tour of Europe (doubtless hoping the foreign food would loosen his entrails).”
― Anonymous