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“a vague soil spread and ready from which friendships would spring.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“So that this so solid-seeming World, after all, were but an air-image, our ME the only reality: and Nature, with its thousandfold production and destruction, but the reflex of our own inward Force, the “phantasy of our Dream.”
― Jagadish Chandra Chatterji, The Wisdom of the Vedas

“Shishon ka koi messiah nahin, kyon aas lagaye baithe ho.”
― A.S. Dulat, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years

“This book was written in good faith, with diligence to the truth, and as a matter of public service. Some of what I write may be contested. But the whole purpose of the book is to arouse interest in Kashmir and learn from past mistakes. In any case, mine can’t be the last word on Kashmir, but I hope it will be the nearest to the truth.”
― A.S. Dulat, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years

“whenever a VIP visit to Kashmir was planned, like that of the prime minister, a hundred messages would fly around saying, ‘Usko ura dena, uski baja dena, safed ghar khatam ho jana chahiye.”
― A.S. Dulat, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years

“The magistrate said, double jeopardy: no one can serve twice for the same crime. She had him released.”
― A.S. Dulat, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years

“The Kashmiri has a huge problem,’ Hashim said. ‘He doesn’t want to speak the truth, he doesn’t want to hear the truth.”
― A.S. Dulat, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years

“You wonder why, after all this, Hashim stays in India. ‘There’s no country freer than India and people don’t realise it,’ Hashim said. ‘You can pee anywhere you like and nothing will happen to you.”
― A.S. Dulat, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years

“As a former militant commander who spent considerable time in Pakistan told me, ‘There are some very fine officers in the ISI, but no one of Doval’s intellect or”
― A.S. Dulat, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years

“Therefore internal debates and bickering continue and inevitably flow into the public domain, confounding the existing confusion. Rajiv Gandhi had once said that intelligence organisations could not be treated like the rest of the bureaucracy. It is time the government settled these issues once and for all—who better to do it than Prime Minister Modi.”
― A.S. Dulat, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years