"Why are the desert blooms that spring to life after a monsoon so magnificent? The answer is – their impermanence. The lush growth and blooming flowers do not last very long here in the desert, and thi..."
- Alaric Hutchinson
"To know India and her peoples, one has to know the monsoon. one has to know the monsoon. It is not enough to read about it in books, or see it on the cinema screen, or hear someone talk about it. It h..."
- Khushwant Singh
"A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what p..."
- Wilbur Smith
"As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all - the colours, the moods, the scents, the subtle, mysterious light, the poetry, the heightened exp..."
- Alexander Frater
"Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful."
- rajuda