Amit Tiwary

“There are diseases worse, yes, than diseases,
Aches that don't ache even in one's soul
And yet, that are more aching than the others.
There are dreamed anguishes that are more real
Than the ones life brings us, there are sensations
Felt only by imagining
Which are more ours than our life is.
There's so often a thing which, not existing,
Does exist, exists lingeringly
And lingeringly is ours and us.....
Above the cloudy green of the broad river
The white circumflexes of the gulls.....
Above the soul the useless fluttering-
What never was, nor could be, and is everything.

Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“While a ribbon awaits Usain Bolt at the finishing line, for people like us, there is a concrete wall. When you reach the finishing line, you run straight into that wall.
Everything, your job, your credibility, your life itself, is at stake.”
― Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

“त्रासदी यह है कि प्रेम हर मज़हब का एक अंग है जबकि इसे ख़ुद ही एक मज़हब होना था.”
― Satya Vyas, Chaurasi/चौरासी/84

“These exhortations to keep safe have made people cowards.”
― Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation