5 Quotes & Sayings By Ashutosh Gupta

Ashutosh Gupta is an award-winning author of contemporary fiction. His debut novel, The Last Song of Kanishka, won the prestigious Ravi Shankar Award in 2016. He has since written the bestselling novel, The Girl with No Hands, which won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in 2017. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel, A Morning Without Tehillah Read more

Ashutosh lives in Delhi with his wife and two children.

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Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization. Ashutosh Gupta
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More than the disappearing trees and roses, it’s the human tendency to suppress the ‘Natural Voice’ of the ‘Nature’s Man’ which is sorrowful. Ashutosh Gupta
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A thinker builds his castle of thoughts inside a garden of roses and it loses its relevance among the roses. He builds it along the shore and it’s trampled by the fury of waves eventually. He builds it on a cliff high enough and it becomes impregnable but out of reach. Such is the fate of that castle Ashutosh Gupta
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Make love an another human compulsion and you will fortify its limitation. Acquire it like knowledge and you will understand everything Ashutosh Gupta