After all, our Killers are our ...Brothers!!??

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

A journey once begun, has no end

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

The problem is not the lack of resources or capability, but the lack of will.

To be successful, you need family and friends but, to be very successful, you need enemies and competitors.

Life is all about a card game. Choosing the right cards is not in our hand. But playing well with the cards in hand, determines our success.

Progress is implied in independence. Without self-government neither industrial progress is possible, nor will the educational scheme be useful to the nation.

If god is put up with untouchability, I will not call him god.

Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only on your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.