What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create their wealth in their nation. They rather think they must be given.

Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,_ she said. __hose who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work

The food in the hostel mess is worst of a kind. The grief in my words reach easily to those who have "been there and done that" Chapatti in the meal is either so uncooked or overly cooked and you can only expect dal in the ocean of water when you are ready to swim.