Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 214

A fallacy has been created that the original empire of the Guptas existed in Magadha while all evidences - epigraphic, numismatic, and the Pauranic - go in favour of establishing the region of Eastern Uttar Pradesh as the original home of the Guptas.
T. R. Sharma
A person may know things by somebody else's experience but a person will always learn things by his own personal experience.
Raj Kiran Atagaraha
Consider our body as a temple and our heart as a place where God or the Guru resides. If we open up our hearts like the gates of the Golden Temple, if we don’t fight with each other in the name of religion, if we treat every individual equally then the God inside us will be happy. When the God inside us becomes happy, we will become happy and when we will become happy then the temple will look all the more beautiful.
Raj Kiran Atagaraha
Time is a strange storyteller. It writes, erases and rewrites endlessly. Things change, places and people become unrecognizable, but stories are repeated endlessly
Vandana Shanker
How history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.
Arundhati Roy
No empire lasts forever, no dynasty continues unbroken. Some day, you and I will be mere legends. All that matters is whether we did what we could with the life that was given to us.
Krishna Udayasankar
Cut off's are like real sadist as they watch some folks happy and disappoint the majority. People dream of a life at Delhi University. Delhiites know there is something special about the brand name and life at the campus. Rest as they say is history and it speaks volumes.
Parul Wadhwa
She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it an unforgettable thing, making it their own
Salman Rushdie
Class was what formed you, but didn’t travel to other cultures – it became invisible abroad. In foreign places, you were singled out by religion and race, but not class, which was more indecipherable than any other mother tongue. He’d learnt that not only were light, language, and weather contingent – class was too.
Amit Chaudhuri
Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.
Amit Chaudhuri
flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mother’s crown in the Tower of London is a powerful reminder of the injustices perpetrated by the former imperial power. Until it is returned—at least as a symbolic gesture of expiation—it will remain evidence of the loot, plunder and misappropriation that colonialism was really all about. Perhaps that is the best argument for leaving the Kohinoor where it emphatically does not belong—in British hands.
Shashi Tharoor
A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the depository. And once it began, it was difficult to interrupt or stop
Aanchal Malhotra
Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.
Aanchal Malhotra
We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. Not in September when the riots died down, not in October when the subcontinent still lay in shock, not even in November as he had hoped and promised us. Lahore was now lost forever
Aanchal Malhotra
I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other side didn’t quite register as Pakistan, or not-India, but rather as some mythic land devoid of geographic borders, ethnicity and nationality. In fact, through their stories, I imagined it as a land with mango orchards, joint families, village settlements, endless lengths of ancestral fields extending into the horizon, and quaint local bazaars teeming with excitement on festive days. As a result, the history of my grandparents’ early lives in what became Pakistan essentially came across as a very idyllic, somewhat rural, version of happiness.
Aanchal Malhotra
Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part as remembering itself.
Aanchal Malhotra
If I considered the Partition an archeological site, and the many experiences of those who witnessed it as the site’s structural sedimentation, then the deeper I excavated, the more I found, and that too in innumerable renditions.
Aanchal Malhotra
History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.
Arundhati Roy
A generation is not defined by the options it has but by the choices it makes.
Sharanya Haridas
We think that history is created in the big things, in the big events, but history is also created in the small things that we do every day, in the personal choices we make— to think or not to think, to hold our tongues or to speak up, to act or not to act. Our actions have a ripple effect on those around us. Every time we conform or don't, we're shaping the world into our vision or someone else's vision. The universe isn't made up of atoms it's made up of stories, and these stories are shaped in college campuses and coffee houses around the country, not just in boardrooms and government buildings.
Sharanya Haridas
In fact, the anti-Muslim stance of much of Hindu nationalism can be construed as partly a displaced hostility against the colonial power which could not be expressed directly because of the new legitimacy created within Hinduism for this power. Such a dynamic would seem to roughly duplicate the displacement of Oedipal hostilities in the authoritarian personality.
Ashis Nandy
When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.
Prem Kishore
Over the years, the British had strategically pitted the Muslims against the Hindus, supporting the All India Muslim League and encouraging the notion that the Muslims were a distinct political community. Throughout British India, separate electorates had been offered to Muslims, underscoring their separateness from Hindus and sowing the seeds of communalism. Teh Morley-Minto reforms in 1908 had allowed direct election for seats and separate or communal representation for Muslims. This was the harbinger for the formation of the Muslim League in 1906. In 1940, the Muslim League, representing one-fifth of the total population of India, became a unifying force. They were resentful that they were not sufficiently represented in Congress and feared for the safety of Islam.
Prem Kishore
People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.
Aporva Kala
History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.
Manjul Bajaj
Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world
Virchand Gandhi
Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of parrots speaking the language of a society that had been wiped out in a recent catastrophe. Astonished by their discovery, they put the parrots in cages and sent them home so that linguists could record what remained of the lost language. But the parrots, already traumatized by the devastation they had recently witnessed, died on the way.The man feels a great fraternity with those birds. He feels he carries, like them, a shredded inheritance, and he is too concussed to pass anything on.
Rana Dasgupta
To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.
Arundhati Roy
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
Idries Shah
If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
Mahatma Gandhi
History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.
Kedar Joshi
The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
Salman Rushdie
Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
Idries Shah
Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s ch
Priya Ardis
Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love yourself because everyone is jealous of you.
Debasish Mridha
When we learn to use the power of love then the world will see the peace.
Debasish Mridha
If you're unloved then find out and destroy all the barriers that you have created against love.
Debasish Mridha
Love yourself to be the source of love.
Debasish Mridha
Those who complain never love, those who love, never complain.
Debasish Mridha
The most important duty of a person is to love himself wholeheartedly.
Debasish Mridha
Without love life will be a flower garden without flowers.
Debasish Mridha
When someone hurts you, don't hurt him back but hit him with your unconditional love.
Debasish Mridha
Love is acceptance without judgment.
Debasish Mridha
Prayer is good but unconditional love is better.
Debasish Mridha
You will attract love when you are the source of love.
Debasish Mridha
Love is the only way to go toward happiness.
Debasish Mridha
My love flew over the boundary of time with incredible beauty and notorious rhyme.
Debasish Mridha
We love things because they reflect our imaginative love in their expression.
Debasish Mridha
In your love I dive to find the nectar of life.
Debasish Mridha
To love is as natural as the blue sky.
Debasish Mridha
With the wings of love, flyin the imaginative and joyful blue sky.
Debasish Mridha
Those who are willing to love find love in every flower.
Debasish Mridha
Love as a flower loves the morning sun.Love with kindness, expect no return. Love like the morning sun, expect no return.
Debasish Mridha
Love to see the invisible with trust
Debasish Mridha
Those who don’t know how to love others, how can they deserve love for themselves?
Debasish Mridha
I am here just to express my love.I am here just to be kind.I am here just to enhance the beauty.I am here just to care for the humanity.
Debasish Mridha
You may hate me from your heart but I will continue to love you to touch your heart.
Debasish Mridha
Pure love is an unmediated, unmitigated, and unrevealing, but everlasting source of joy for the giver and for the receiver.
Debasish Mridha