We stood at the window, gazing on a slender, red streak over the eastern rim of the earth. A cool breeze lapped our faces. The boundaries of our personalities suddenly dissolved. It was a moment of rare, immutable joy – a moment for which one feels grateful to Life and Death.

The gods grow jealous of too much contentment anywhere, and they show their displeasure all of a sudden.

But there is this peculiarity about heat: it appears to affect only those that think of it.

The sun set beyond thesea, so says the poet – and when a poet mentions a sea, we have to accept it; no harm in letting a poet describe his vision, no need to question his geography.

This work opens the eyes of the world blinded by ignorance. As the sun dispels darkness, so does Bharata by its exposition of religion, duty, action, contemplation, and so forth. As the full moon by shedding soft light helps the buds of the lotus to open, so this Purana by its exposition expands the human intellect. The lamp of history illumines the ‘whole mansion of the womb of Nature.’ – Vyasa.

The compartment built to ‘seat 8 passengers; 4 British Troops, or 6 Indian Troops’ now carried only nine.

It’s often said that God made man in His own image, it’s also true that man makes God in his own image.

By the twelfth day of his fast, Raju himself has become a tourist attraction. Before an enormous crowd and an American television crew, the starving man is helped down to the drought-stricken river to pray:.

Even when you realize that the one before you is an enemy and must be treated sternly, do not hurt with words.

Every minute becomes a yesterday and is lost forever.