Mukul Bhatnagar

“A government that has intelligence system that ensures a surprise does not become a surprise will be successful in securing its people and the nation.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“If Pakistani cities were caricatures, most would be easy to draw. Lahore is corpulent and languid, stretched out in a shalwar kameez, twirling its moustache over a greasy breakfast. Islamabad cuts a more clipped figure, holding court in a gilded drawing room, proffering Scotch and political whispers. Peshawar wears a turban or a burka, scuttling among the stalls of an ancient bazaar. But Karachi is harder to sketch. It has too many faces: the shiny-shod businessman, rushing to the gym; the hardscrabble labourer who sends his wages to a distant village; the slinky young socialite, kicking off her heels as she bends over a line of cocaine.”
― Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

“अछूत एक प्रकार के दुपाये का नाम है जिसे लोग संविधान लागू होने से पहले छूते नहीं थे। संविधान एक कविता का नाम है जिसके अनुच्छेद १७ में छुआछूत ख़त्म कर दी गयी है क्योंकि इस देश में लोग कविता के सहारे नहीं, बल्कि धर्म के सहारे रहते हैं”
― श्रीलाल शुक्ल , राग दरबारी