Amish Tripathi
Amish Tripathi
Amish Tripathi, is an Indian author, known for his novels The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas and The Oath of the Vayuputras. The three books collectively comprise the Shiva Trilogy. His debut work The Immortals of Meluha was a bestseller, that broke into the top seller chart within a week of its launch owing to his creative marketing strategies. The Shiva Trilogy has become the fastest selling book series in the history of Indian publishing, with 2.5...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 October 1974
CityMumbai, India
CountryIndia
Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.
Ati sarvatra varjayet: Excess of anything is bad. Some of us are attracted to Good. But the universe tries to maintain balance. So what is good for some may end up being bad for others... Agriculture is good for us humans as it gives us an assured supply of food, but it is bad for the animals that lose their forest and grazing land.
There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.
Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.
A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.
It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.
There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.
As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.
People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting
The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.
The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.
Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when u simply don't bother about that person!
With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.