I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision.
The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (. . . ) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (. . . ) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power.
Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.
We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should be: the idea of family, mutuality, the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all, feeling one another's pain, sharing one another's blessings — reasonably, honestly, fairly, without respect to race, or sex, or geography, or political affiliation.
But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?
God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.