‘#InYourBloodIRun is also about literature’s power to provoke and to emancipate…’
Read a review of @soniabhatnaga’s brilliant murder mystery set in pre-Independence India. @ReadersDigestIN
https://t.co/yemZsIBnZs
"Her drama was one not of heaviness but lightness.
What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being" RIP #MilanKundera in #theunbelievablelightnessofbeing
https://t.co/QZ0ytEgbkZ You know what they say about an idea that has your hand flying to your mouth without you even knowing it? Write about it! Read?
"“there is a thing inside me, and sometimes it swells up like the head of a squid and shoots blackness through me.” #ElisabethStrout in #OliveKitteridge
Talking about not-so-nice women in fiction today at #Areyoulit at Coutryard by Marriott, Gurgaon at 3 pm. Come if you can?
“I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.” — Virginia Woolf
"This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness." ~@ANNELAMOTT
Brigadier: You don't think we're just going to walk out of India!
Gandhi: Yes. In the end, you will walk out. Because 100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate.
#Gandhi#onetruesentence#HappyIndependenceDay
"You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise"
Maya Angelou 'Still I Rise'
“A dog can never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
that you know almost nothing.” Mary Oliver, Dog Songs #onetruesentence
“Choosing whom to commit ourselves to is merely a case of identifying which particular variety of suffering we would most like to sacrifice ourselves for.” Alain De Botton #onetruesentence