“As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.” PlayFailingDrawsInsufficient Author:Marty Nemko
“Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.” PeopleMayResultsBiggerImpactBeing NiceGood WritersPositive Impact Author:Marty Nemko
“Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.” TryingLightCan DoDyingAcceptanceBalanceStrikesRageInevitability Author:Marty Nemko
“The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.” PoliticalCultureCausesPovertyEventsCreationVictoryWeaponsIndiaNuclearPsychologicalIndianNuclear WeaponsPakistanRiotCleansingEthnic CleansingProliferationHavocIndia And Pakistan Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“The partition of India in 1947 legitimized the forces of masculinist nationalism and enabled hatred for the "other" to irreparably mutilate a shared anti-colonial legacy and cultural heritage so systematically that the wounds inflicted by the partition are yet to heal.” ForceHatredIndiaWoundsHealLegacyNationalismHeritageCultural HeritagePartition Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.” IndiaSecularCredibilityKashmir Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.” NeedsIslamicNationalismSecularPakistanKashmirTheocracy Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.” RealTestsIndiaSecularismKashmir Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“The culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse population of Indian and Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir has been unable to reach a consensus on the future of the land and the heterogeneous peoples of the state.” Has BeensStatesLandPopulationIndianDiverseConsensusKashmirJammuJammu And Kashmir Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“In establishment Indian and Pakistani thought, Kashmiris are defined as different from the nationals of the two countries.” TwoDifferentCountryDefinedIndianEstablishmentTwo Countries Author:Nyla Ali Khan