Saurav Gupta

“It scarcely made a column of newspaper space, but it wrote headlines in their lives.”
― Erich Segal, Prizes

“A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it. In a world that increasingly obsesses over the gods of power, money and fame, a journalist and a writer must remain detached, like a bird on a rail, watching, noting, probing, commenting but never joining. In short, an outsider.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

“I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty.”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

“The kinship I felt suddenly for the old land . . . it surprised me . . . I thought I had forgotten about this land. But I hadn’t. . . . Maybe Afghanistan hadn’t forgotten me either.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner