Rahul Kumar

“Thus, an Indian father’s determination to protect his beloved daughter led to the demise of the Portuguese in Oman. In”
― Sanjeev Sanyal, The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

“In reality, the network of large and small temples had a close relationship with merchant and artisan communities as well as the village/town councils; this is quite clear from an examination of various donations and contracts. Moreover, the reason that the temples accumulated so much wealth is that they acted as bankers”
― Sanjeev Sanyal, The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

“(a preliminary study hints that Varanasi may be as old as the Harappan cities).24”
― Sanjeev Sanyal, The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

“All existence seemed to be based on duality, on contrast. Either one was a man or one was a woman, either a wanderer or sedentary burgher, either a thinking person or a feeling person-no one could breathe in at the same time as he breathed out, be a man as well as a woman, experience freedom as well as order, combine instinct and mind. One always had to pay for one with the loss of the other, and one thing was always just as important and desirable as the other.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund