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Mad is an everyday, ordinary word. It is compact. It fits into songs. As the old Hindi film song has it, M-A-D, mad mane paagal. It can become a phrase—‘Maddaw-what?’ which began life as ‘Are you mad or what?’. It can be everything you
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“Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.”
― Home Fire
― Home Fire
“It’s strange how the most dyed-in-the-wool tyrants still vaguely respect due process, as if they want to make it appear that they aren’t abusing procedure, even while riding roughshod over every convention. It’s as if power isn’t enough for them, and that they take special pleasure in forcing their enemies to perform, one last time and for their benefit, the same rituals that they are even then demolishing.”
― The Order of the Day
― The Order of the Day
“who, please explain, will fight Raavan’s hordes? The namby-pamby intellectuals of Mithila? What is the plan? Debate the Lankans to death?”
― Sita: Warrior of Mithila
― Sita: Warrior of Mithila
“பொழுதுபோக்கு
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அப்படியே உட்கார்ந்து, பொழுதை போக்கும், பொது ஜனமே!
இப்படியே கழித்தால், வீண் போகும், முழு ஜென்மமே!
ஹாபி என்பது டிவி பார்ப்பது மட்டும் இல்லை!
உடலையும் உள்ளத்தையும் ஒன்று சேர்த்து,
பிடித்த விஷயத்தில் லயிக்க வைப்பது!
அது உன் பொழுதை போக்கவேண்டும்; தேவைபட்டால்,
உன் பொழுதையும் விடிய வைக்க வேண்டும்!”
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அப்படியே உட்கார்ந்து, பொழுதை போக்கும், பொது ஜனமே!
இப்படியே கழித்தால், வீண் போகும், முழு ஜென்மமே!
ஹாபி என்பது டிவி பார்ப்பது மட்டும் இல்லை!
உடலையும் உள்ளத்தையும் ஒன்று சேர்த்து,
பிடித்த விஷயத்தில் லயிக்க வைப்பது!
அது உன் பொழுதை போக்கவேண்டும்; தேவைபட்டால்,
உன் பொழுதையும் விடிய வைக்க வேண்டும்!”
―
“For girls, becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition”
― Home Fire
― Home Fire
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