

“I had begun my journey asking why my father was Muslim and this was why: I felt sure that none of Islam’s once powerful moral imperatives existed within him, but he was Muslim because he doubted the Holocaust, hated America and Israel, thought Hindus were weak and cowardly, and because the glories of the Islamic past excited him.”
― Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands
― Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands

“...if we were to associate the genius of a place with one particular thing – the Russians with literature, say, or the Germans with music, the Dutch and Spanish with painting – we would have to say that the true genius of Ancient India was language.”
― The Way Things Were
― The Way Things Were

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Fathers and Sons
― Fathers and Sons
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