shashi kallada

“Bengalis say when offered cod, we still have other fish to fry.”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel

“Unless a miracle saves us,' Khushwant Singh writes, 'the country will break up. It will not be Pakistan or any other foreign power that will destroy us; we will commit hara-kiri.”
― Khushwant Singh, The End Of India

“Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.”
― Omar Khayyam, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“I think it is against nature for a man to get along better with his dog than he does with his wife, to teach it to eat and defecate on schedule, to answer his questions and share his sorrows.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores