Surbhi S

“It has always been a conscious, fundamentally human choice to remember some things, to keep reminders and save keepsakes, to store mementos in a little box on the top shelf in our room and take it down once every year to dust and laugh fondly over. Parallelly, it is a conscious, fundamentally human choice to strive to not remember some things, to throw away old cards, to return old gifts, to refuse to wear a certain colour or go to a certain part of town because it reminds us too much of something that hurts. But I keep circling back to a key question: what happens to us when the internet starts making these choices for us?”
― Ria Chopra, Never Logged Out: How the Internet Created India's Gen Z

“Desire doesn’t spread like information; it spreads like energy. It passes from person to person like the energy between people at a concert or political rally. This energy can lead to a cycle of positive desire, in which healthy desires gain momentum and lead to other healthy desires, uniting people in positive ways; or it can become a cycle of negative desire, in which mimetic rivalries lead to conflict and discord.”
― Luke Burgis, Wanting: Mimetic Desire: How to Avoid Chasing Things You Don't Truly Want

“Art is a nakedness, you have to be free to decide when you’re comfortable with it, and with whom.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“India’s unwritten law for the truth seeker is patience; a master may purposely make a test of one’s eagerness to meet him.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi