Aporva Kala

“Mr. Rip Wan winkle, be a star that twinkle.”

“On hindsight every failure is the best medicine, bitter but effective”

“When the wound is fresh it hurts, more so when you are reminded to the hurt time and again”

“Who was it who said something about the Indians being argumentative, good soul, let him come to Haridwar and meet this bunch. Good for him too, if he adapts with age; for if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs spectacle snails salivating on the Soma of youth?”

“He did not see the huge armies but the world divided into two opposites camps: the right and the wrong, the good and the evil, the aggressor and the defender, the unrighteous and the righteous, the arrogant and the humble. It is not the people who are inclined to fight against each other but the men who lead them. Humanity as a rule wants to relate with each other and wars are an exception to this rule.”

“I thought of her as she, and she as her.”

“Her tears still lay, unattended, on my bosom...I wouldn't wipe them, for she might stop paying me visits.”

“One needs longing to live and enemies make one long for them.”

“It is destiny which takes you to people who have the answers to your questions.”

“For a girl there is a shorter version of youth.”

“Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.”

“People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.”

“Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.”

“An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.”

“It is important how people take you.”

“He didn't ask because he didn't wanted to know. If you know, moments die an instant death. She held his hand in hers; hiding them like a pearl; her coral eyes ensconcing his pain.”

“Art is a culmination of all that one stands for”

“His failure became my destiny”

“The words explain us all, each having a meaning in a meantime: every time for a lifetime.”

“Religion is a good time pass, better than philosophy, and a million times better than love; love is a wastage of an era.”