"The greatest book in the world, the Mahabharata, tells us we all have to live and die by our karmic cycle. Thus works the perfect reward-and-punishment, cause-and-effect, code of the universe. We live..."
- Tarun J. Tejpal
"It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity."
"Love is not the greatest glue between two people. Sex is."
"Who can ever hold the essence of fire?Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?"
"I was still madly in love with her when I left her but the desire had died, and not all the years of sharing and caring and discovering and journeying could keep me from fleeing."
"Fizz had a phrase for those manic occasions when you scaled every final peak, fell off the other side and passed out. Mightysatiety. The oblivion of maximum pleasure."
"We went to places where we felt - like all lovers - that we were the first.We discovered the body of a lover has secrets that never end.We discovered that at times the same secrets reveal different tr..."
"I would be unfair to myself if I said I did not try. I did, even if desultorily. But desire is a curious thing. If it does not exist it does not exist and there is nothing you can do to conjure it up...."
"You are not the one you see in themirror. You are the one who isshining in the eyes of others"
"In the winter of 1987 India was full of iskeems that had gone awry. Agricultural iskeems, political iskeems, economic iskeems, educational iskeems, stop black money iskeems, attract white tourists isk..."