Dipankar Sengupta

“For we live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; and our time should be counted in the throbs of our hearts as we love and help, learn and strive, and make from our talents whatever can increase the stock of the world’s good.”
― A. C. Grayling

“For there is no doubt that imaginative geography and history hello the mind to intensify its own sense of itself by dramatising the distance and difference between what is close to it and what is far away.”
― Edward Said W

“If the first requirement of a civilisation is the possession of its own language, the second must be the pursuit of a literary tradition. Books are, in historian Barbara Tuchman's words, the carriers of civilisation.”
― Paul Kriwaczek, Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation

“As Napoleon said, to know a nation's geography is to know its foreign policy”
― Robert D. Kaplan, The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate