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“If everything around us today is art, then we must either be blind or we ought to be so.”
― The Watchdog and Other Stories
― The Watchdog and Other Stories
“The pavement was my pandemonium, only I was not its Lucifer. I was not a fallen angel. Those who had only heard about me rumoured that my dreadful locks were of Ganges’ length, and my hands equally dirty; that I was somehow capable of curing alien maladies by diving in the patient’s eyes and grabbing the devil by the tail before tossing it out; and that once, I had bedded a gori who, since my sinister lovemaking to
her, had been falling constantly enceinte because I had viciously and designedly released such a large lump of sperm that had bunny-hugged her fallopian tube thereby causing her belly to be inflated as soon as it was deflated.”
― The Watchdog and Other Stories
her, had been falling constantly enceinte because I had viciously and designedly released such a large lump of sperm that had bunny-hugged her fallopian tube thereby causing her belly to be inflated as soon as it was deflated.”
― The Watchdog and Other Stories
“I personally think that life has never put you to a real test. That’s why it seems so difficult. An easy life is more dangerous because it doesn’t make you question it. It becomes faithful to you. It tells you what you want to listen and only shows what you want to see. You may call it loyal but it’s like ordering a spaniel to sit when it’s already sitting, and then rejoicing in the effectiveness of your instruction. An easy life doesn’t
burn the coal, my friend.”
― The Watchdog and Other Stories
burn the coal, my friend.”
― The Watchdog and Other Stories
“O how idiosyncratic is this concept of clothes! We put on too many and they call us conservative, bourgeois; we take them off and they say we are low on morals. Clothes were supposed to protect our bodies, not to form and repair our images. Things that we made to protect us in a certain way have sadly ended up destroying us in so many million ways.”
“I agree with you. Clothing the soul is more important than clothing the body.”
― The Watchdog and Other Stories
“I agree with you. Clothing the soul is more important than clothing the body.”
― The Watchdog and Other Stories
“Happiness, true happiness, comes when one is done making efforts. No matter how beautiful the canvas is, the wall does not develop hands to hold it. It only strengthens itself to welcome the canvas. This love between the wall and the canvas is bridged with the help of a small but strong nail. Changing too many canvases, too many nails will only weaken the spirit of the wall to receive more of them. It’s the same in human relationships. If a canvas wishes to be taken down, let it be with gladness. Otherwise, that spot will be doomed to remain forever empty, like uprooting not just the plant, and with care, but the entire layer of soil underneath it. Let the hands of life bring a canvas to you. Don’t try to be happy. And stop giving of yourself to others but to yourself alone. You have given too much, Niloofar…You have given too much.”
― The Watchdog and Other Stories
― The Watchdog and Other Stories
Ashish’s 2025 Year in Books
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