aiswarya

“Sometimes I still hum the tune of a song which described the prosperity and the gentle beauty of Cooch Behar as the abode of gods in the foothills of the Himalayas”
― Gayatri Devi, A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur

“Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“We allow justly that the Holocaust has permanently altered the consciousness of our time: Why do we not accord the same epistemological mutation in what imperialism has done, and what Orientalism continues to do?”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism

“You don’t understand death, you learn to acquiesce in death.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth