The Vault of Vishnu

by Ashwin Sanghi

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer,

‘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.’

bureaucrats were like defective guns: they never worked and could not be fired.

That is the binary nature of the world; every positive comes with a negative.

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

Sometimes the most unlikely acquaintance can turn out to be your saviour.

We women always have to work far harder to prove ourselves to be better than our male counterparts.’

good scientist had to be spiritual at heart and a good spiritualist had to be a scientist at heart. The two concepts of science and spirituality were not incompatible.