Benu B

“When I enter my home,
many homes seem to be waiting for me
to give a shape to this life, which
is about to perish.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“A cripple, on the threshold of manhood, returning from the wars with a broken body, with no thought of telling of brave deeds done, but only eager to tell his father that with his own eyes he had seen the man who years ago he had not had the opportunity of seeing, a man whose only claim to remembrance was that he had fired one accurate shot.

A typical son of Garhwal, of that simple and hardy hill-folk; and of that greater India, whose sons only those few who live among them are privileged to know. It is these big-hearted sons of the soil, no matter what their caste or creed, who will one day weld the contending factions into a composite whole, and make of India a great nation.”
― Jim Corbett, Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag

“It is the first time I am in a church and I don’t like it. It is as though they are making me eat beef and pork. The flowers and the brass and the old smell and the body on the cross make me think of the dead. The funny taste is in my mouth, my old nausea, and I feel I would vomit if I swallow.”
― V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“Mathematics knows no races or geographical boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.”
― David Hilbert