Nitish Bhagath

“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

“Mollycoddling was the mother's duty; the father's lay elsewhere. As a consequence, his four older children feared and respected him, as they had been taught to do, and the love the professed to feel, had they been asked and had they answered truthfully or even had access to the truth, was of a duty-bound, obligatory kind too, a love issuing from commandment and tradition and the notion of family, not one from the tides of the heart or the unbridled, inexplicable pull of feelings. If painted, that love would take the form of a polite and manicured wash of pleasant colours, not the hurl-and-splatter of impastoed reds.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

“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

“It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others