life is a work in progress.
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.
The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.
This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking about people elsewhere; they could never be in a single existence at one time. How wonderful it was going to be to have things otherwise.
Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind ?
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.