Mathematicians From India

"Modern life alienates us from Nature, even our own."

"Ritual is intimately connected with the mask, either in the wearing that hides the true face, or in the adoption of a public face."

"History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination."

"When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat."

"The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide."

"Gods have many faces."

"Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth."

"People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise."

"I have so much of desire that desire itself is my fulfillment."

"The world is a game of information and paradox."

"What is the chance that one can roll up the sky like a hide?"

"The best paradise is the paradise we are exiled from."

"Indian Anglosphere indifference to #KashmiriPandit genocide & expulsion is a shameful episode of recent history. Look at the Yazidis; their genocide and sex-slavery is not rationalized. The Indian Anglosphere lives in a cocoon of self-hate, self-deception and brazen mendacity."

"Beauty takes us to a space that is ineffable, a place of secrets."

"The essence of the Vedas is a narrative on who the experiencing self is. Ordinary science informs us of the relationships between objects and also their transformations. But the Vedas say that this ordinary science leaves out the self who observes these objects."

"Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid."