SUMANTA ROYCHOWDHURY

“Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously.”
― Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal

“It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Every point in history is a crossroads. A single travelled road leads from the past to the present, but myriad paths fork off into the future. Some of those paths are wider, smoother and better marked, and are thus more likely to be taken, but sometimes history – or the people who make history – takes unexpected turns.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“before he fell asleep, Molière’s words came to him, strangely comforting: Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun