Tell me when, tell me where…
I promise you, I will be there…
Tell me now, tell me how…
I could show you that I care…Every worry, every dare…
Let me stand with you to share…
Every pain, every sorrow…
Pass them on for me to bear…Your friendship means so much to me…
The bond between so rare…
Always, I shall wish for you…
All that’s best and fair…
--Amal Kiran
It is better to be pissed off than to be pissed on
-Logik, and it spread rapidly to the point of the origins getting obscured.
Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee.
-Saad
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-Mohan KV
Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house-the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture– must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.
-Srinivas
Do people who know how to swim never get that sinking feeling?
-Ducky aka Anand Natarajan
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
-Helmet aka Sanjeev
Whatay poetry! “Unfortunately the fragile mind of today’s youth needs nothing but a small spark for all years of education to go up in smoke.”
-Mohan KV
“I’m yet another resource consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak.”
-Abhay TS
Why is it that life gives us so many opportunities to feel depressed?
-Pseuba aka Siddharth
Do not believe in miracles – rely on them!
-Aditya
This Saarang, its both of you
-Ducky aka Anand Natarajan, before Saarang 2008.
This Saarang, it was all of you
-Ducky, after Saarang 2008.
To iterate is human, to recurse, divine.
-Vimal
Buddhist monk commits suicide to ensure strong punishment for murderers of another Buddhist monk.
-Auto aka Prannoy
I am a vampire, but I have lost my fangs
-Pavan
(Divya) thinks that its highly cute that dogs know how to cross roads.
-Divya Nair
Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. -Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
-K.V.Mohan
I was depressed last night so I called Lifeline. Got a call centre in Pakistan. Told them I felt suicidal. They got all excited and asked if I could drive a truck.
-Saad
I kissed your lips and broke your heart, you, you were acting like it’s the end of the world
-Ducky aka Anand Natarajan
one could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
-Jhopad, for quite a long while
A bit of googling tells me that its a line from a poem praising Kabul from the book “A thousand splendid suns”
