If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when...
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Walter Isaacson
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.
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E.m. Forster
Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.
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Tahir Shah
Srinagar is a medieval city dying in a modern war. It is empty streets, locked shops, angry soldiers and boys with stones. It is several thousand military bunkers, four golf courses, and three book-shops. It is wily politicians repeating their lies about war and peace...
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Basharat Peer
From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face. They are not just a nuisance. As a collective they are dangerous. When men capable of murder receive the affection of engineers and...
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Manu Joseph
More Quotes By Sam Miller
The English explorer Richard Burton told the story of an Englishman finding his new wife unconscious on the marital bed, having chloroformed herself. She had pinned a note to her nightdress which read: 'Mama says you're to do what you like.
We all have our patchwork ideas of India, our notions and opinions and prejudices—often fallacious and absurd—of this enormous, disparate country, which, as I take pleasure in reminding newcomers, bigger in population than all but its own continent: Asia. It is a place onto which...
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller
