Nitish Bhagath

“I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this.”
― Neel Mukherjee

“People talk of rage as something fluid; it boils, flows, spills over, scalds. For her, it is not any of these things. Instead it is a vast, frozen sea, solid as rock, unthawable. She has never seen the sea, but she knows it wraps around three-quarters of the world. All her anger is that and more.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

“Battles are won one by one and enemy battalions are destroyed one at a time. Factories are built one at a time. Farmers cultivate one plot after another. We serve ourselves the total amount of food we can consume, but we eat it spoonful by spoonful; to eat it in one go would be impossible.This is known as the piecemeal solution.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

“Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others