Salma

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

“Had our tour group sat down to draw up a manifesto, it might have gone something like this. We the young, urban, middle class tend to lead a rushed life working for corporates that care more for their bottom-lines than for their employees or the environment. As stressed, unfulfilled, moneyed individuals we then seek satiety in consumption, a treadmill which, besides drawing us further into the same trap, is environmentally unsustainable and has far-reaching consequences. If we would only be willing to to lead a slower, simpler life, we might not have all the shiny stuff, but our work might be better aligned with our talents and dispositions, and we would have opportunity and time to introspect, explore, and lead more fulfilling lives. Everyone would then be growing according their own genius.”
― Srinath Perur, If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai: A Conducted Tour of India

“There are two words you won’t find in Europe: “mercy” and “free”.”
― Srinath Perur, If It's Monday It Must Be Madurai: A Conducted Tour of India

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings