Nithin V A

“A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Ms. Found in a Bottle

“Bright lights provoked the soldiers to barge in and check the house for militants. Bright lights led the militants to chose your house as their shelter for the night. You lived with the dread of a fatal gun battle.”
― Basharat Peer, Curfewed Night

“Kill the traitor!' 'Traitor, traitor, traitor!' 'Jai Mahishmathi!' the crowds screamed. Thirteen years have made no difference, thought Sivagami. People where still bloodthirsty. It didn't matter who killed whom. It was just entertainment for them. The rulers knew this well, and used it to control people, too keep them subservient. They regularly arranged these spectacles for the crowds because they helped to instil a sense of pride for the nation. Once that pride was born, it didn't matter whether they starved like dogs or lived like pigs; they still felt their country was the best in the world, that their ruler was their god, and they, the ruler's blind devotees.”
― Anand Neelakantan, Chaturanga

“Below me are artillery lines, curved stone walls built in overlapping crescents along the hillside. I wonder what scholars of the future will make of them, the stone circles of our war-torn generation.”
― Alice Albinia, Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River