"The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (...) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power."

-- David Selbourne

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“I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.”

Source : Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media
“You are meant to be going somewhere, to be headed to a destination. The poorest person in the world is a person without a dream”
“Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.”
“I love making 'iCarly' - it's so much fun, and I love getting the script every week and not really knowing what insane thing I'm going to be doing. It's just like an adventure every episode; that's really fun.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview with Despicable Me's Miranda Cosgrove!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 9, 2010.
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
“Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.”
“She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.”
“I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.”

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