If someone should ask, how should an Opposition function? the best answer would be, in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.
R.K. Narayan
R.K. Narayan
This education has reduced
This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.
R.K. Narayan
Death and its associates,
Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.
R.K. Narayan
The difference between a
The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass.
R.K. Narayan
Society presses upon us
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
R.K. Narayan
This is my child.
This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don’t cut it down.
R.K. Narayan
We always question the
We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.
R.K. Narayan
Friendship was another illusion
Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.
R.K. Narayan
A profound unmitigated loneliness
A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.
R.K. Narayan
No one ever accepts
No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.
R.K. Narayan