Abhinav Mishra Quotes

Realizing that you are in love is itself a beautiful feeling ... And there is nothing like one-sided love or both-sided love. Love is simply love. Celebrate this feeling ~ Anamika Mishra

Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things. ~ Pawan Mishra

I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or "You have to do that." Buddhism does not prescribe rituals or prohibitions in the way many religions do. ~ Pankaj Mishra

It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes. ~ Pankaj Mishra

Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books. ~ Pawan Mishra

Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination. ~ Pankaj Mishra

It was definitely a rare situation where a career had started and ended simultaneously on a very high note. ~ Pawan Mishra

A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does! ~ Pawan Mishra

Success is not about never getting fail but trying again and again until you get victory over failure and achieve your goal. ~ Abhinav Choube

Clapping is easily the best example of self-amplification in the world. It sprouts from a single wham to a wave of sound in no time. As soon as someone clapped on hearing Tulsi's name, an avalanche of applause followed. ~ Pawan Mishra

You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm not going to be greedy.' Unless you're able to do that you're stuck with adversarial politics that leads nowhere and creates ever greater violence. ~ Pankaj Mishra

If the future depends on stories, then our future looks bright indeed. ~ Pawan Mishra

I need to offer a sacred water sacrifice at the porcelain altar. ~ Pawan Mishra

A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it. ~ Pawan Mishra

I write because I always want good to win over evil ~ Anamika Mishra

Believe in things impossible, love the magic of a place, mystery in a person, passion in a relationship and seek adventures in life.. Live the life don't go through it.. ~ Anubhav Mishra

The internet has created a transnational audience. If you publish something in the New York Times, it's read all over the world. Who knows how big this audience is or how long it will last. ~ Pankaj Mishra

For the young Turks, soon to assume power and build a nation-state on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, Japan provided clear inspiration. These envious outside observers of Japan's progress did not see the extreme violence of the country's makeover. Nor did they notice the trends towards conformity, militarism and racism that were later to make Japan a ominously successful rival to Europe's imperialist nations- by 1942, Japan would occupy or dominate a broad swathe of the Asian mainland, from the Aleutian Islands in the north-east to the borders of India, after booting out almost all the European masters in between. For many Asians in the late nineteenth century, the proof of Japan's success lay in the extent to which it could demand equality with the West; and, here, the evidence was simply overwhelming for people who had tried to do the same and had failed miserably. ~ Pankaj Mishra

You aren't in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth? ~ Pawan Mishra

Saying Good Bye is bad but don't forget. it is a new beginning of something and new beginnings are always blissful ~ Anamika Mishra

My dreams may be nonsense too,but I do not want to run the risk of not following them ~ Anamika Mishra

A writer is the one who loves to write ... on and about anything ... And this clears that I am a writer!! ~ Anamika Mishra

There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave way to bigger states. There was much more trade and travel going on than before. To people in the cities the experience of living in a small place where you knew everyone and governed your affairs by consensual democracy had been lost. ~ Pankaj Mishra

Your passion as an artist is a magnet that draws you at all times, but if you don't follow, it will suffocate your heart. ~ Pawan Mishra

The art wouldn't complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination. ~ Pawan Mishra

Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise. ~ Pawan Mishra

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India. ~ Pankaj Mishra

I am looking at this shiny star tonight,
Wishing wishes could come true...
I wonder if by any chance,
He sees the same star too!!


The overwhelming darkness tickles the lonely heart tonight,
I wonder if he sees the star I am watching,
May be he would stand within its light!

There are many miles between us,
but still our souls can meet...
At this point when we look at this star together,
May be our hearts could find their beat!

Don't you feel the need for someone to come,
Into your life...
I am wishing for the same thing,
As I watch this star tonight!

This gentle light on my face,
Cheers and comforts and holds me tight...
I wonder if by some chance,
I find you holding me with love and sitting by my side!

But this remains a wish as he is still unseen and unknown,
I wonder who he might be, to whom I would be prone!

A hopeless or born romantic,
Everyone is searching for true love,
Wishing wishes in the darkness,
To this magical star that hangs above! ~ Anamika Mishra

Not receiving a request through the entitled route is no excuse for not serving it. ~ Pawan Mishra

What is the point of all the money in the world if you don't have the freedom to do the things you love? ~ Anamika Mishra

Life is an iffy sine curve; in the climb on the hill, I might yet again fall down;
What will take any of us "there" is - do we sit with regret, or get up and move on. ~ Rajat Mishra

Just like a boxer can't win without a few punches on his face, a student can't be fully trained without ups and downs. ~ Pawan Mishra

I write because I want to fall in love with love over and over again ~ Anamika Mishra

It is said, that South Indian Music, as known today, flourished in Deogiri the capital city of the Yadavas in the middle ages, and that after the invasion and plunder of the city by the Muslims, the entire cultural life of the city took shelter in the Carnatic Empire of Vijayanagar under the reign of Krishnadevaraya. Thereafter, the music ~ Gaurav Mishra

As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination. ~ Pankaj Mishra

Who might you be?" she demanded. "A wretched lord of cacophony and sheer decibels? Or a ruthless assassin of harmony? ~ Pawan Mishra

As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion. ~ Pankaj Mishra

Love is not about making promises but it's about believing, no matter how far you are or how frequently you talk, you know you both are made for each other ~ Anamika Mishra

In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent! ~ Orhan Pamuk

Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first. ~ Pankaj Mishra