Quotes from Gita Mehta

The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.

In his attempt to frighten me, my father had made me realize that to prevent suffering a man must be capable of suffering, that a man who cannot suffer is not alive.

Without desire there is no life. Everything will stand still. Become emptiness. In fact sir, be dead.

In a Cuban writers union, there was some confusion about what the toast should be? It was the Gita Mehta who solved the riddle and said, I purpose a toast to the health of the written words

There is that difference between being kicked in the teeth and reading a description of being kicked in the teeth. Some call it existential.

to prevent suffering a man must be capable of suffering, ... a man who cannot suffer is not alive.

The two things vital to success: how to sense approaching danger and how to be flexible. This is where the war for the possession of India was fought - pitting Aryan reason against the primal beliefs of the tribals.