“Section144 (of the Criminal Procedure Code) slowed, confused, sometimes deflected the independence initiative. But the cat never closed in for the kill.That was never the intention. Besides there were, if you will, too many mice.”
Source: The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945
“Gandhi did not ask when India would be ready for independence. Gandhi asked when will the British be? Just as he looked for Indians to direct their gaze inward and discover their true selves, so he looked for a transformation, a change of heart, in India's occupiers. They were to recognise that they had no business being in India. They were to recognise that they had never had any business being in India. When that realisation came, they would be allowed to depart with dignity, perhaps even with honour. They would ( Francis Hutchins, India's Revolution) "be permitted to withdraw to compose their memoirs.”
Source: The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945
“Of India he (Sir John Strachey) had pronounced (and in reissues of "India: Its Administration and Progress" continually repeated) that nothing by that name existed. "This is the first and most essential fact about India that can be learned.”
Source: The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945
“For it was the Englishmen of that day who felt race, thought race, and used the word often and publicly. It was the Englishman who, encountering an Indian or an Egyptian or a Zulu, and observing that he differed, attributed the difference not to circumstance but to blood, not to community or culture but to race.”
Source: The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence 1942-1945
“our country doesn't ask for our lives, what it ask for only our honest and love
Happy Independence day!!!
15 Aug.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Subhas Chandra Bose not died in a plane crash at the front, had Bhagat Singh not been hanged by the British, and had Gandhi not been killed by a Hindu extremist moron, Bharat, Pakistan and Bangladesh together would be shining as the brightest beacon of multiculturalism on the face of earth.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Who is it that dares ask, the drowning ones—are they Hindu or Muslim?
Say instead, they are humans, they are the children of my motherland.”
Source: Independence
“Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests.
In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.”
Source: Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden
“All these years! All this time with us -- have you learned nothing?!
You only live by the grace of our clan's tenet of forgiveness!
Your judgement is shit!
Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. Without decency, neither talent nor learning can make the human frame into a samurai.”
Source: Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden
“Knygos tvirtina: ji padarė tai todėl ir todėl. Gyvenimas tvirtina: ji padarė tai. Tik knygose viskas paaiškinama, o gyvenime ničniekas. Nesistebiu, kad kai kurie žmonės teikia pirmenybę knygoms. Knygos įprasmina gyvenimą. Visa bėda, kad jos įprasmina kitų žmonių gyvenimą, bet ne tavąjį.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot