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Umesh Kesavan

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Umesh’s Notes & Highlights

Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka

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The series was not only Sri Lanka’s first victorious overseas tour, it was also Pradeep Mathew’s last public appearance.

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Umesh’s Quotes

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

31224 likes

“If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

259 likes

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

7821 likes

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88050 likes

“George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.”
― Gideon Haigh

tags: nationalism, orwell, sport, war

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