Last Man in Tower

Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

In a socialistic economy, the small businessman has to be a thief to prosper.

When it comes to work - hurry, hurry, hurry. When it comes to payment - delay, delay, delay. Caste, religion, family background nothing. Talent everything.

And then he realized that the thing that was blocking his passage was cleared, and he was falling; his body had begun its short earthly flight — which it completed almost instantaneously — before Yogesh Murthy's soul was released for its much longer flight over the oceans of the other world.

Chain of envy linked them, showing each what was lacking in life, but offering also the consolation that happiness was present right next door, in the life of a neighbour, an element of the same society.

Vishram is a building like the people living in it, middle class to its core. Improvement or failure, it is incapable of either extremity.

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

Pigeons flew in and out of the rooms, now no one’s rooms, just the spent cartridges of old dreams.