Arjun Jaideep Bhatnagar

“The true nature of sorrow is boredom.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing study and remain in his corrupt memory. It is like the insult of a corpse on the road by a war photographer.”
― Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People

“That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living,”
― Khushwant Singh, Delhi

“When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.”
― Khushwant Singh, Delhi: A Novel