Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.
Gregory David RobertsTo be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tag: prayer 9-11 new-york bombay hannah ground-zero charminar church-of-south-india
A teenage boy with a Mohawk sat across from me, sneering. I’d seen that look before. Why was it a problem to knit in public?
“My grandma knits.”
I ignored him.
“So what are you making, Grandma?” Mohawk’s voice was ugly.
I arched my eyebrow. “A cashmere cock ring. Your grandma ever knit one of those?”
The kid’s eyes grew wide, and he suddenly became very interested in a four-year-old issue of Teen Vogue.
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...wearing a turban of yellow, signifying knowledge, and a robe of purple, portraying purity and activity, Virchand Gandhi of Bombay delivered a lecture on the religions of India....
The New York TimesTag: knowledge gandhi newspapers 1897 india bombay virchand-gandhi newyork
While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils.
Mahatma GandhiTag: gandhi mahatma-gandhi bombay barrister virchand-gandhi civil-procedure-code-i evidence-act indian-law
In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
Virchand GandhiTag: ancient country indians commerce india indian 19th-century bombay indian-quote international-trade economist international-business quotes-on-india virchand-gandhi indian-philsophers jains
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay
Jeet ThayilAnd at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Brahmin or untouchable or whether you were born in this city or arrived only this morning or whether you live in Malabar Hill or New York or Jogeshwari; whether you’re from Bombay or Mumbai or New York. All they know is that you’re trying to get to the city of gold, and that’s enough. Come on board, they say. We’ll adjust.
Suketu MehtaTag: bombay
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I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
Tahir ShahTag: writing travel india bombay
Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.
Tahir ShahTag: wisdom life gossip india bombay mumbay
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