Prashant Wadnere

“Prolixity is not alien to us in India. We are able to talk at some length.”
― Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

“[The princess] looks out and sees the humble musician with his lute. But unless the musician turns out to be a prince in disguise, this story cannot end well.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic—a moral code independent of religion—strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.”
― Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity