Aditya Vijaykumar

“Had Shastri been given another five years, there would have been no Nehru–Gandhi dynasty. Sanjay Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi would almost certainly still be alive, and in private life. The former would be a (failed) entrepreneur, the latter a recently retired airline pilot with a passion for photography. Finally, had Shastri lived longer, Sonia Gandhi would still be a devoted and loving housewife, and Rahul Gandhi perhaps a middle-level manager in a private sector company.”
― Ramachandra Guha, Patriots & Partisans

“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”
― Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

“It affects him, the great arrogance of the Equilateral Triangle, the failed aspiration of the octagon to be a circle, the eternal suffocation of the denominator that has to bear the weight of the unjust numerator, the loneliness of Pluto. And the smallness of Mercury, always a mere dot next to a yellow sun. In this world, there is no respect for Mercury.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness Of Other People

“On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.”
― Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar