Shobhit

“We have never been a very demonstrative family – poor people who have to work hard and cope with problems very rarely are.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Al-Tabari understood that human truth is always flawed—that realities are multiple and that everyone has some degree of bias. The closest one might come to objectivity would be in the aggregate, which is why he so often concludes a disputed episode with that time-honored phrase “Only God knows for sure.”
― Lesley Hazleton, After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam

“An upright organism with opposable thumbs is thus built from a script, but built to go off script. We call one such unique variant of one such organism a “self.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“No event of any importance in India is complete without a goof-up. In this case, it was relatively minor. When, after the midnight session at the Constituent Assembly, Jawaharlal Nehru went to submit his list of cabinet ministers to the governor general, he handed over an empty envelope. However,”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy