Himanshu Gupta

“I understood for the first time that I didn't understand what I thought I understood”
― Seiji Ozawa, Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

“But the forecasters and media types were clever - they never used vague words like "maybe." No, they stuck with convenient terms for which no one could be held accountable, like "probability of precipitation.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes, it was horrific. But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? The thing Africans don’t have that Jewish people do have is documentation. The Nazis kept meticulous records, took pictures, made films. And that’s really what it comes down to. Holocaust victims count because Hitler counted them. Six million people killed. We can all look at that number and rightly be horrified. But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. It’s harder to be horrified by a guess. When Portugal and Belgium were plundering Angola and the Congo, they weren’t counting the black people they slaughtered. How many black people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? In the gold and diamond mines of the Transvaal? So in Europe and America, yes, Hitler is the Greatest”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“In the silences between his words, listen to what you have to say back. Therein lies his message.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air