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Cuckold Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar
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“Let nobody fool you, most couples are conjoined on earth.
The mismatches, now they are a different story. They are made in heaven

Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“Where do songs go when you cease to hear them? Where does the turbulence of the air disappear after thousands of birds flap their wings homeward at eventide? Where are the cries of the Rajput women who spatter their red palm prints on the wall and leap into the flames of johar? Where is my childhood, my catapult, my broken slate, my first parrot, my youth and first sin and all those that followed, where is my old age and the first time I saw the woman from Merta? Ask Gambhiree. She knows it all.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“The only way a man could defy time was to leave behind buildings that would not die.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“The only battles that he and his kin fought, the only blood they spilt was on the chessboard. Massacres and carnage were not to his taste. He preferred the long, slow, tortuous death. I”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“run. He is spoilt and his ambition is the work of an idle and over-reaching mother.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“Grammar, he felt, was a sign of competence, not of excellence.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“I sometimes think that Buddhism is the toughest religion in the world. It not only eschews all talk of god but does not allow any instant remedies. Responsibility for one’s own acts is its only metaphysics. So”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“As you sow, so shall you reap has a neat ring to it but you are making a grievous mistake if you put your faith in that kind of cheap sentiment. There are no just deserts. The wages of sin are not necessarily hell and the path of goodness is often lined with treachery for the world is predicated upon the principle of randomness.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“Being in the right has got nothing to do with courage or exceptional bravery. The forces of evil will fight just as enthusiastically or fiercely as the armies of righteousness.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“The only miracles in life are wrought by time.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“When you deal with naked power from an inferior position, perspectives get distorted.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“If not absolution, I yelled, give me oblivion.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves. Not always, but at least occasionally, it can break our obsession with the self.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“Rigour and ruthlessness do not preclude sympathy with another’s point of view.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“people talk with a sense of wonderment about the incredible bravery of us Rajputs. This is missing the obvious. Whether it’s Father, my brothers, my ancestors, I or my countrymen, we are, it goes without saying, unsurpassedly fearless and valiant.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“We watched the field exercises first and then sat in on a class by. Shafi Khan on classic attack formations. It was a lucid talk with ample diagrams and case-studies.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“Let nobody fool you, most couples are conjoined on earth. The mismatches, now they are a different story. They are made in heaven.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“There is nothing, absolutely nothing, one cannot do without in life. All wants are dispensable as long as one can absent oneself.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“Anyway you looked at it, I had little choice but to bray along with the others. It was too late now. I had let my diffidence and dislike for exhibitionism get the better of me.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“But to censor it would be tantamount to a kind of doctoring. I would be just as guilty of a normative version of the past as the charans and their ilk. And not to write at all would mean that i, too, believes that truth was a good slogan but not to be confronted in the corridors of real life.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“The past was with my countrymen every moment of their lives. History for then was that fabled second chance. They could rework the past and get it right this time around.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“Life teaches me a hundred things every day, and I forget ninety-nine of them, sometimes all hundred of them. I forgot once again never to take anything for granted”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“Sometimes I think we have no present, only the past.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“Who makes up or invents proverbs? They are so often a crockful of never-mind-what. They pile up platitude upon platitude which the officious and unctuous mouth in and out of season and are taken to be the distillates of wisdom.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“The mind must have the final say and sway over the body and not the other way round,”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“Enlightenment and tolerance, it would seem, have little to do with being lettered or unlettered. His”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“There is no truer meditation than music and no journey of discovery greater than that of looking within. A”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“I am a very possessive woman. But I knew that if I were to keep you, I would have to let go of you. I”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold
“Life teaches me a hundred things every day, and I forget ninety-nine of them, sometimes all hundred of them.”
Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold

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