“If we wanted new clothes, we knew exactly how much he could spare and what cuts would have robe made elsewhere. The result was that we simply did not desire what we couldn't afford. When you have no choice, you… — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
“Ours is a joint family. We live in the same house - my wife and I, my parents, my uncle and Malati. Malati is… — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
“The well-being of any household rests on selective acts of blindness and deafness.” — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
“If we wanted new clothes, we knew exactly how much he could spare and what cuts would have robe made elsewhere. The result was… — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
“We had no compunction toward our enemies [the ants] and took to increasingly desperate and violent means of dealing with them. If we noticed… — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.” — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
“It’s true what they say—it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us. When there’s only a little, it behaves meekly;… — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
“Don’t forget us. Keep visiting.’ At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. I had grown up among them – how was it… — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.” — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
“there’s a vast difference in the moral underpinnings of a business family and the household of a salaried teacher. I” — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
![“We had no compunction toward our enemies [the ants] and took to increasingly desperate and violent means of dealing with them. If we noticed they'd laid siege to a snack, we might trap them in a circle drawn with water and take away whatever they were eating, then watch them scurry about in…” quote by Vivek Shanbhag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/98c/vivek-shanbhag-43263_ants_we-had-no-compunction-toward-our-enemies_1068684.jpg)
