“Advice is nice / On it I’ve thriven / Not mother’s or other’s / But what I’ve given!”
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
“When India voted, a whole world voted. A whole world – hundreds of millions of people, speaking in a great orchestra of different languages, praying to different gods, living in a continental hugeness that not long ago was divided into hundreds of principalities people driven to centuries of war against each other by rulers seeking conquest, foreigners seeking booty, religious zealots seeking blood, educated people by the millions, illiterate peasants by the scores of millions, from mountains through great stretches of plains to southern seas. On my mind – The World of India (1 December 1989), A. M. Rosenthal”
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
“I have lived and flourished in a secular India. In the fullness of time if God wills, I would also like to die in a secular India.”
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
“Teachers should have a proud place in society. In India, regrettably, they do not – as exemplified, by what I chanced to witness a few years back in Delhi. A wizened old man driving his 1938 Austin at a speed under 20 mph with a sign at the back of the car reading, ‘Please overtake me – as all my students have.’ Pathetic, but how true!”
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
― Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography
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