Nishan Agarwal

“Our own lives are too small for us to have enough "material" to feed a deep moral decision-making process. Reading novels and stories allows us to gain access to deeply imagined lives other than our own. Experiencing complex moral situations enriches the pool of experience from which we make decisions. Great novels also have the complexity to strengthen our moral muscles.”
― Diane Cameron

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance

“The first text book on the subject was Aristotle's Rhetoric which was written sometime between 322 and 320 B.C. In this book Aristotle defined rhetorical discourse "as the art of discovering all the available means of persuasion in any given case." During the Roman period great orators like Cicero and Quintilion also wrote some important books on the subject. They also agreed with Aristotle and defined rhetoric as the art of persuading an audience. At first it also included logic, that is, valid reasoning and the tricks or devices used in argument so as to produce intellectual and emotional effect on the audience in order to make them veer round the speaker's point of view. But today it means mostly the tricks.”
― M. Chakraborti, Principles of English Rhetoric and Prosody

“Then they were very much frightened to visualize that the food cooked at the house of the Pandavas would be a waste and they stealthily fled away from there presupposing that the Pandavas would be angry on that account. He knew what had happened to him at the house of Ambarīṣa and ever since that incident, had become afraid of the Lord's devotees. Not finding them there Sahadeva returned. Thus Śrī Hari, well disposed to those taking shelter in Him, saved those who took refuge in Him. Hail to such a love for the devotees.”
― Jayadayal Goyandka, Some Exemplary Characters of the Mahabharata