Kiran Nagarkar

“I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“In India, as in other poor countries, we have a line that is invisible and abstract and yet more powerful and pervasive…

— Kiran Nagarkar

“my joyous companion of the mornings. Who knows what pain we cause our dearest ones?”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“Perhaps moksha lies in not thinking about the afterlife.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“The only miracles in life are wrought by time.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“If not absolution, I yelled, give me oblivion.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“Nobody sang steamy overwrought songs to Rama, Vishnu or Shiva. What was the source of the irresistible attraction of the peacock-feathered god?…

— Kiran Nagarkar

“I am a very possessive woman. But I knew that if I were to keep you, I would have to let go…

— Kiran Nagarkar

Gurus Enable you to see new things. The trouble with Gurus is that you can rarely see beyond them.

— Kiran Nagarkar

“It’s not enough to be honest and loyal, frankly it doesn’t matter if you are not, so long as you are perceived…

— Kiran Nagarkar

“Even the Hindu neighbours had no way of figuring out what the priest recited, though it was in their mother tongue, Marathi.…

— Kiran Nagarkar

“There is no truer meditation than music and no journey of discovery greater than that of looking within. A”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“Life teaches me a hundred things every day, and I forget ninety-nine of them, sometimes all hundred of them.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“I sometimes think that Buddhism is the toughest religion in the world. It not only eschews all talk of god but does…

— Kiran Nagarkar

“But if detachment is really fear of failure and hence never putting oneself to the test, or if it’s fear of being…

— Kiran Nagarkar

“No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“There’s something about doing a job well that is akin to art.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“It did not cross the minds of most Hindus that barring exceptions, they were responsible for Catholicism in India. The outcastes of…

— Kiran Nagarkar

“You couldn’t ever be off your guard with this boy. Even when you had just saved his soul and begun to trust…

— Kiran Nagarkar

“Enlightenment and tolerance, it would seem, have little to do with being lettered or unlettered. His”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“She was more serene and self-possessed in her nakedness than the supernaturally calm larger-than-life image of Lord Mahavir in her grandfather Adinathji’s…

— Kiran Nagarkar

“We rework our own memories and reinvent ourselves to suit our tastes and predilections every day.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“Let nobody fool you, most couples are conjoined on earth. The mismatches, now they are a different story. They are made in…

— Kiran Nagarkar

“Rains are an act of God in India. And God as we know is a law unto himself. He is not responsible,…

— Kiran Nagarkar

“You would be entirely justified if you spent your entire life railing against your misfortune. But there is another option. Rise above…

— Kiran Nagarkar