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"Sachin had to prove everyone right and I had to prove everyone wrong," Anil Kumble once quipped with a hearty laugh.

"Politically and economically, the India of the cities had begun to integrate with the Bharat of the small towns."

"Was India a land of show-offs?" Indeed, it is!

Thanks Shatrugna for the giveaway copy. :-)

"Most men do nothing to deserve what the gods throw their way."

“Keep hitting,” Locke sputtered. “You just keep hitting. I can take it all day. You just keep…hitting me…until…Jean gets back!"

I laughed out loud at 1 am in the night!

“The threat of an empty stomach soon rekindles wisdom.”

"What a great country this would be if every man, whatever his station, concentrated half as much on the smallest detail of his work as an umpire is compelled to do, from high noon to dewy evening of a cricket match! - Neville Cardus

“Your Burma is so golden you can pluck nuggets out of people’s farts…”

Finally, I had smiled after endless days of sadness.

“It feels more like the sensation you have when you sit down very heavily in a chair: the breath rushes out of your body, and you find yourself gagging. It’s hard to make sense of it—any of it. You want the pain to be simple, straightforward—you don’t want it to ambush you in these roundabout ways each morning, when you’re getting up to do something else—brush your teeth or eat your breakfast…”

“That’s gulai tumis, fish cooked with pink ginger buds, bunga kuntan.”
“And this?”
“Prawns roasted in pandanus leaves.”
“Peanut crumpets.”
“Nine-layered rice cakes.”
“Chicken with blue flowers—bunga telang.”
“Pickled fish with turmeric leaves and lime leaves and leaves of purple mint.”
“A salad of shredded squid and polygonum and duan kado, a creeper that smells like a spice-garden.”

Yummy!

“Then he uttered a shout of laughter and threw his cheroot high into the air. They stood looking at it, side by side, laughing, watching as it rose circling above them. Suddenly the glowing tip disintegrated and a shower of sparks came floating down. It was as though fireworks were raining down from the heavens."

“She was like the palace itself, a thing of glass, inside which you could see everything of which your imagination was capable.”

“She had been just a child, and yet she had touched him like no one else and nothing before. In her wide eyes, saturated with fear, he had seen his own aloneness turned inside out, rendered visible, worn upon the skin.”

Time to aboard the feels train!

1980s 1980s 1980s!

"You must never... compare Hobbs, Bradman or anybody else with Trumper. If you want to try and classify the great batsmen in the game, put Victor Trumper way up there - on his own - and then you can begin to talk about the rest." I feel that I should have born a century ago to witness Victor Trumper batting.

"Something I was beginning to discover about lying. The more I did it, the easier it got."

It has been too YAish so far for me but now it is getting interesting.

The pictures are creepy.

"Battles are won months before they are fought."

"We’re outmatched and outgunned here in the heart of the enemy formation. Trapped. No escape. A sphere forming around us. I only have four torchships left." Is it a Chakravyuha from Mahabharata?

“... I guess I realized as I was talking that justice isn’t about fixing the past, it’s about fixing the future. We’re not fighting for the dead. We’re fighting for the living. And for those who aren’t yet born. For a chance to have children. That’s what has to come after this, otherwise what’s the point?”

“This is war. And victory is the only nobility.”

"Forget a man’s name and he’ll forgive you. Remember it, and he’ll defend you forever."

I said it once. Now I’ll say it twice. If there’s two things in this world that can’t be killed, it’s the fungus under my sack and the Reaper of bloodydamn Mars. Haha!”

"This is best illustrated by looking up into the night sky at stars whose brilliance took fifty light-years to reach our eyes. Or five hundred. Or five billions. We're not just looking into space, we're looking back through time." The only interesting thing so far. :-|

“But you know when you’re watching a film you feel like you can see what’s happening?”
Ben nodded.
“Well, that’s one thing. But when you read a book, you feel like you’re in it.”

“Be silent, hide away and let
your thoughts and longings rise and set
in the deep places of your heart.
Let dreams move silently as stars,
in wonder more than you can tell.
Let them fulfill you—and be still.”

"Do, if you watch cricket from your youth, you develop it into your psyche."