For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

In establishment Indian and Pakistani thought, Kashmiris are defined as different from the nationals of the two countries.

How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

We're doing the Twyla, not Twilight, so stop sucking!

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

I am a great believer in loyalty, trust and integrity. Gary made a commitment to this club, the supporters and myself and I fully expect him to homour that commitment.

Small daily improvments over time create stuning results