Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

"Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in the matters of heart, parents in this part of the world hadn’t quite come around to letting their adult offspring choose their lovers."

"Most of a husband’s life is spent in doing research on his wife."

"The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes."

"You need to be my wife to win with me."

"All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy."

"A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work."

"When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened."

"No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him."

"Such delicacies are relationships."

"A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it."

"It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected."

"...he had also acquired a peculiar academic quirk. During exams, he knew all the answers but wasn’t able to successfully map his answers to the right questions. So as soon as an exam started, he simply started putting his answers in the order in which he remembered them. Every time he moved to a new class, his parents made the new teachers aware of this snag. The teachers acknowledged it and reassured the parents that they’d match his answers against the appropriate questions."

"Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time."

"There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation."