We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.
My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.
A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.
I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.