The Vault of Vishnu

by Ashwin Sanghi

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer, he reminded himself, not for the first time in his life.

‘No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.’

‘To use bitter words when kind words are at hand is akin to picking unripe fruit when ripe ones abound.’

The two concepts of science and spirituality were not incompatible.