Indian Author Quotes

Am a servant of Rama,
Accredited to His Court,
What for should I
Be a Courier of man?

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

Nothing. She is innocent and blameless. She has lived as Rama's queen ten thousand years; before that Rama saved her from great danger by wondrous and incredible deeds. And now behold one of the terrors of kingship, that Rama let her go because his people talk against her. Get up, save her life with you and your companions; and make in measured words the song of Rama, and teach it to Rama's two sons.

What was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it?

Nayantara Sahgal

The Hindu mind works in such a way that continuity of worship is more important than physical fact. When the Harappans migrated eastward towards the Gangetic region, they carried with them their memories of the Sarasvati. The myths and sanctity were transferred to Prayag.

We're all surrounded by words like air, and we all need them even though they are often invisible, just like air.

There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contaminations.

Numbers are not the supreme truth in the world. In freedom's battle in any country, do all the people of that country take part? When the Americans fought for their freedom, more than half the people of that country were with the British. In the Irish freedom struggle, how many were actually involved in it? Right or wrong is not decided by the counting of heads. It is decided by the intensity of tapasya or the single-minded devotion to the cause. The problem before the Hindus is not to devise ways and means of bringing about an artificial unity. The problem before them in how to organise themselves.

Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a pleasurable death, just because one chooses beauty over life. There is nothing in this world to hold something so pure, so divine except a loving heart. And it is the only manner through which love recognises love; the language of love has no alphabet, no words.

Religion of your upbringing is like a cloak - you must know how it is made in order to take it off.

This is the land of religion, Be it be for good or for evil, we cannot do without religion. Religious thoughts are in our blood. If we try to flee from it, it will pursue us.

Mahadev Govind Ranade

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

My father once remarked that the only way to write was the 'Franz Kafka' way where thoughts turn into pus-wielding wounds and when you let that wound out, it twists and turns into a story which people consume.

Shomprakash Sinha Roy

Wealth, women and wine can make anything happen in this world!

Ravinder Singh (author)

I thank God who has blessed Mysore so abundantly in material ways that He has blessed her also with a sincere, modest, liberal-minded and industrious people; and I thank my people themselves, my Government and my officers that by their hearty co-operation for the good of Mysore they have earned for it the name of the Model State and the signal proof of appreciation which we have just received from the Supreme Government.... And I appeal specially to the rising generation to hold before themselves always the ideal of brotherhood and good citizenship, so that when they come to fill our places, they may continue in all good ways to advance and increase the welfare of our beloved Motherland.

Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV

No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.

The profound cosmology and outlook that permeates Hinduism. Indra's Net symbolizes the universe as a web of connections and interdependences [...] I seek to revive it as the foundation for Vedic cosmology and show how it went on to become the central principle of Buddhism, and from there spread into mainstream Western discourse across several disciplines.

Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.

The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.

Amidst all your cries and laughter let your mind take a moment off, and go still. Look at this moment, this moment alone, and go still.

Swami Veda Bharati