I lurk around there a lot, so I can usually borrow fascinating books for free. ... Three months later my closest friend died from an unidentified reason. ... As I was laying the book down I noticed carving in the back of the book. Right after I read the ancient writing, I burned the book down. ... You will become aged and die in a year, wiping off your first and last tear." ...
"I can only write about it [the past] by bringing it in some relation to my present-day thoughts and activities, and then this writing of history, as Goethe once said, brings some relief from the weight and burden of the past," (The Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru). ... These communal riots were such infectious that it did not even spare calm and serene village, "where the sun and moon arise silently and set silently, where paddy, wheat grow silently, where fruits and figs ripe silently and fall silently, where our children are born silently, grow and die silently," (193). ... ...
