Janhavi

“Humans are also social creatures. Even the introverts among them crave interaction—not necessarily with other humans, but rather with the residue and output of those other humans: books and music and art, to be contemplated and perhaps even created. No human is an island. They are rarely even peninsulas. There is a reason why one of the greatest punishments of humanity is to be placed in a solitary confinement, even for a short time.”
― John Scalzi, Slow Time Between the Stars

“To lose patience is to lose the battle’.”
― Mike Coward, Cricket Beyond the Bazaar

“In those days the simple solution to every problem was to sack someone. The tragic neglect of the years, by those in the highest positions, in keeping the Army without suitable mountain equipment, was conveniently forgotten.”
― J.P. Dalvi, Himalayan Blunder: The Curtain Raiser to the Sino Indian War of 1962

“Anyone who has tried to walk over a moss-covered boulder, in a new pair of Army boots without studs will understand the fury of the soldier at the persons responsible. Readers will also appreciate the enormity of the crimes of those who fed the Country and the Army with tall talk of self-sufficiency in arms productions, grandiose plans to build planes and tanks, while leaving the Army short of this simple, indigenously produced item.”
― J.P. Dalvi, Himalayan Blunder: The Curtain Raiser to the Sino Indian War of 1962