Upendra Kumar

“Love of one’s country
is part of the faith.”
But don’t take that literally!
Your real “country” is where you’re heading,
not where you are.”
― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی, The Essential Rumi

“1980, Rajiv Gandhi said that there was ‘no question of my stepping into [Sanjay’s] shoes’. Asked whether he would take up a party post or contest elections, Rajiv answered that he ‘would prefer not to’. He added that his wife was ‘dead against the idea of my getting into politics’.14 Nine months later Rajiv Gandhi was elected an MP from his brother’s old constituency, Amethi. When asked why he had changed his mind, Rajiv answered: ‘The way I look at it is that Mummy has to be helped somehow.”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

“what is now in the past was once in the future’.”
― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy