“was shocked to learn that many common Asuras had also begun to believe in Rama’s divinity. Making your wife suffer exile in the forest, killing a friendly king through deceit, sending terrorist to cities and annihilating innocent men, women and children…were these the marks of divinity?”
― Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
― Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
“They were no fools-these Brahmins. They knew how to project even the mundane tasks of burning twigs as earth-shaking, scientific discoveries and claimed to tame the forces that controlled the world.”
― Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
― Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
“was no dearth of gods in my country. It only lacked men.”
― Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
― Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
“Tell the truth, all Sicilians prefer smelling the shit of their villages to the best perfumes in Paris. What am I doing here? I could have escaped to Brazil like some others. Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us.”
― The Sicilian
― The Sicilian
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