204 Quotes by Ashwin Sanghi
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While I can’t walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.
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There is indeed one person who can help solve “writer’s block”. His name is Mr Johnnie Walker.
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The relationship between the critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue or the dog and lamp post.
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Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There’s the ancient connection right there.
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Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe.
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Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.
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Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.
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In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed to the chanting of the Amitabh Chaleesa. And people still ask, “Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?
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In India we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.
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