I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base natures can take over very fast. We can forget that we are sentient beings, with laws and codes and ethics.

I turned atheist in the 90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.

There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.

There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.