Neel Preet > Neel's Quotes

“Go for it because for all those moments that you would make up your mind the other might have already rushed for it.”
― Neel Preet, Voice from the East

“One may never get to know how fast the time travels till the one gets in that position to race against the time.”
― Neel Preet, Voice from the East

“Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.”
― Neel Preet, Voice from the East

“Time is the real emperor and there is no space for any pride since time flies and blows away anything.”
― Neel Preet, Voice from the East

“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
― Vikram Seth, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

“Bharat as a civilisation was a reality, and reducing that reality and near-unbroken lived experience to a mere talking point to score brownie points over one another was more a proof of expediency than real conviction in the values the Indic civilisation stood for.”
― J Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

“The ‘modern’, ‘rational’, ‘scientific’, Christian European coloniser could not get himself to acknowledge that the lived experience and traditional knowledge of native societies gathered over millennia could teach him more than a thing or two about living in harmony with nature as opposed to merely salvaging what remained of it in the name of ‘sustainable’ development.”
― J Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

“is precisely for these reasons that De Roover calls both secularism and liberalism secularised versions of Christian onto-epistemology, obscured by the employment of secularism itself as a filter to understand history. De Roover is not alone in holding this view. There are others, such as Carl L. Becker, S.J. Barnett and Elizabeth S. Hurd, who believe that at the very least the evidence to support the common assumption that the Enlightenment was a move away from Christianity towards secular reason is as far as it can get from being conclusive. That the secularisation of the Enlightenment is perhaps the consequence of a retrospective approach to history, appears to be the more plausible argument. This is because several of the leading Enlightenment thinkers were pious Christians in a society heavily committed to Christianity, whose philosophies were significantly more influenced”
― J Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution