33 Quotes by Kiran Nagarkar

In the meanwhile, just see how profitable the fruits of non-violence are in this life. You stay pure while someone else, someone like me and my Rajput clan, does the sinning and the killing. While you religiously refrain yourself from bloodying your hands, you lend vast sums of money to finance the mightiest armies at minuscule decimal point percentages which add up to monstrous sums of interest.

She was willing to put in as much effort as necessary to discipline Ravan and bring him back to the straight and narrow. But Ravan's mute forbearance wore her down. All her life she had assumed that persistent endeavour was always followed by success. She now realized she was wrong.

I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.

Being in the right has got nothing to do with courage or exceptional bravery. The forces of evil will fight just as enthusiastically or fiercely as the armies of righteousness.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, one cannot do without in life. All wants are dispensable as long as one can absent oneself.

But to censor it would be tantamount to a kind of doctoring. I would be just as guilty of a normative version of the past as the charans and their ilk. And not to write at all would mean that i, too, believes that truth was a good slogan but not to be confronted in the corridors of real life.

The only way a man could defy time was to leave behind buildings that would not die.

There’s something about doing a job well that is akin to art.

Anyway you looked at it, I had little choice but to bray along with the others. It was too late now. I had let my diffidence and dislike for exhibitionism get the better of me.