There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experien...
VIKRAM PATEL I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend m...
VIKRAM PATEL In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million p...
VIKRAM PATEL I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Pri...
VIKRAM PATEL It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental...
VIKRAM PATEL I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dism...
VIKRAM PATEL Most aid agencies do not even consider proposals to treat mental health problems; those that do thin...
VIKRAM PATEL Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressa...
VIKRAM PATEL I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from ...
VIKRAM PATEL Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There,...
VIKRAM PATEL Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic...
VIKRAM PATEL In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition...
VIKRAM PATEL I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.
VIKRAM PATEL I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind...
VIKRAM PATEL The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the r...
VIKRAM PATEL In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing ...
VIKRAM PATEL Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who ...
VIKRAM PATEL Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem...
VIKRAM PATEL Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don't have a ro...
VIKRAM PATEL If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committin...
VIKRAM PATEL There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professio...
VIKRAM PATEL Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health pr...
VIKRAM PATEL The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health probl...
VIKRAM PATEL India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, ...
VIKRAM PATEL There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as b...
VIKRAM PATEL I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku...
VIKRAM SETH When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened,...
VIKRAM SETH I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reform...
VIKRAM SETH If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, wh...
VIKRAM SETH You can talk good ideas out of existence.
VIKRAM SETH Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
VIKRAM SETH Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of...
VIKRAM SETH I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
VIKRAM SETH As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the curre...
VIKRAM SETH I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
VIKRAM SETH The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying on...
VIKRAM SETH It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time t...
VIKRAM SETH Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story,...
VIKRAM SETH I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
VIKRAM SETH Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or ...
VIKRAM SETH I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
VIKRAM SETH In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
VIKRAM SETH I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or wat...
VIKRAM SETH Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are alre...
VIKRAM SETH My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
VIKRAM SETH The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
VIKRAM SETH I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
VIKRAM SETH I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
VIKRAM SETH Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don&...
VIKRAM CHATWAL My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I w...
VIKRAM CHATWAL I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
VIKRAM CHATWAL Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
VIKRAM CHATWAL I believe in numbers and signs.
VIKRAM CHATWAL There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual as...
VIKRAM CHATWAL Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
VIKRAM CHATWAL Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
VIKRAM CHATWAL Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
VIKRAM CHATWAL God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETH Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives ra...
VIKRAM SETH People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
VIKRAM CHATWAL I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
VIKRAM SETH Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and au...
VIKRAM SETH In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and co...
VIKRAM SETH The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as s...
VIKRAM SETH It was a good wicket for the two days we played. We were fortunate enough to win the toss and post a...
VIKRAM SOLANKI The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.
VIKRAM CHANDRA What could my mother be
to yours? What kin is my father
to yours anyway? And how
did ...
VIKRAM CHANDRA If the trial court was wrong in letting her serve as her own counsel, that's not a mistake that's im...
VIKRAM AMAR Unless a legislature passes a bill testing the opinion, there is no way to know if the court's opini...
VIKRAM AMAR A parade is defined by who is in it. Its identity consists of who is in it. The inclusion of any pol...
VIKRAM AMAR At one level this is a very technical, dry case about when deference is owed (to an executive interp...
VIKRAM AMAR But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the e...
VIKRAM SETH And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, ask...
VIKRAM SETH Romantic retrospect aside, the night spent in the truck is distinctly unpleasant. We are cramped and...
VIKRAM SETH In a double biography, an intertwined meditation, where the author is an anomalous third braid, some...
VIKRAM SETH So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been ...
VIKRAM SETH I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostal...
VIKRAM SETH Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to spl...
VIKRAM SETH On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I hav...
VIKRAM SETH If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tack...
VIKRAM SETH I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot...
VIKRAM SETH Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.'
'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of ot...
VIKRAM CHANDRA How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,
Or fares, or one thing or another,
How...
VIKRAM SETH But what should I do?' Varun was saying. 'I'm not good for anything.'
'Write a book! Pull a ric...
VIKRAM SETH ghazal that he had heard Saeeda Bai sing, but, oddly,
VIKRAM SETH What I mean is,’ continued Amit, ‘it sprouts, and grows, and spreads, and drops down branches th...
VIKRAM SETH There was just enough room for the tonga to get through among the bullock-carts, rickshaws, cycles a...
VIKRAM SETH I triumph and rejoice that my action should have obtained your approval; nor am I disturbed when I h...
VIKRAM SETH I'm not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I'm a hedgehog.
VIKRAM SETH Wherever his faltering mind,
unsteadily wanders,
he should restrain it
and bring it u...
VIKRAM SETH Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols...
VIKRAM SETH All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, th...
VIKRAM SETH There was a few seconds' pause. Then Amit said: I meant, what were you thinking just now.

VIKRAM SETH He had come to a decision about the next step in his life. This decision was irrevocable unless he c...
VIKRAM SETH I've always felt that the performance of a raag resembles a novel - or at least the kind of novel I'...
VIKRAM SETH The Fever Bird

The fever bird sand out last night.
I could not sleep, try as I might...
VIKRAM SETH The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.
VIKRAM SETH She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show)...
VIKRAM SETH Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this ...
VIKRAM SETH Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
VIKRAM SETH Man without life companion is either god or beast.
VIKRAM SETH And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
VIKRAM SETH You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.'
VIKRAM SETH Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters mig...
VIKRAM SETH She was quite pretty too in those days; indeed, perhaps she still was. But for some reason none of h...
VIKRAM SETH Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
VIKRAM SETH We are about 30 percent of the market [for blade server switches], making us one of the largest [ven...
VIKRAM MEHTA After the tour to Pakistan, we just thought we'll take some time off and spend it here. I had hoped ...
VIKRAM SOLANKI The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
URJIT PATEL I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral proce...
URJIT PATEL Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can...
PANKAJ PATEL Cadila, India's sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new ...
PANKAJ PATEL During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not...
PANKAJ PATEL What we do tomorrow is more important than what we did yesterday.
PANKAJ PATEL The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying i...
PANKAJ PATEL It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one...
PANKAJ PATEL High Maintenance; I don’t like to live in place that snows a lot, albeit I’d love to visit one. ...
YATIN PATEL Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches e...
PANKAJ PATEL Believe me, it's not easy being an actress and a producer, especially with no big daddy to suppo...
AMISHA PATEL I would never deny the importance of the media, but I wouldn't go out of the way to splash my pi...
AMISHA PATEL Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful...
AMISHA PATEL I work on my body to stay fit, but that does not make me superior to anyone. I am a forthright and h...
AMISHA PATEL I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in tr...
AMISHA PATEL I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including ...
AMISHA PATEL To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogene...
AMISHA PATEL I reprimand people, even those working with me, for littering the roads.
AMISHA PATEL Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.
AMISHA PATEL Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.
AMISHA PATEL From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. ...
URJIT PATEL One of the big myths about philanthropy is that it's all about donating funds for a cause. I lik...
PANKAJ PATEL When I arrived and looked at the destruction from the tsunami, I told myself, 'We're not going to be...
AMISHA PATEL I am happy I have competition. It keeps me on my toes all the while and stops me from becoming compl...
AMISHA PATEL Films were never on my agenda, may be it was written in my destiny. And since I am here, I would lik...
AMISHA PATEL Without Padilla's input, this court is deprived of a full factual record.
ANDREW PATEL Without Padilla's input, this court is deprived of a full factual record,
ANDREW PATEL This case started in an unusual way, but I'm happy today it's in a criminal court proceeding. Mr. Pa...
ANDREW PATEL This case started in a very unusual way but I'm happy to say that today it is a criminal proceeding....
ANDREW PATEL The issue that is before the court, that we have asked them to take up, is: does the president of th...
ANDREW PATEL The plea that will be entered next Thursday will be 'not guilty'.
ANDREW PATEL We will be providing him with a zealous defense.
ANDREW PATEL Mr. Padilla is being treated as any American citizen. This case should be tried in a public courtroo...
ANDREW PATEL We don't know if the order exists in written form. It is his order that started the ball rolling on ...
ANDREW PATEL Once you open the door to a power like that, where does it end? ... There is a certain bedrock way w...
ANDREW PATEL Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Ev...
AMISHA PATEL Two people don't see same event as opportunity. When one see it a problem; other look to capitalize ...
ASHISH PATEL Besides commercial benefits to the oil companies, equity oil abroad also provides national energy se...
DINSHA PATEL That said, we continue to favour GM over Ford due to the former's more favourable 2006 product cycle...
HIMANSHU PATEL Financial assistance from Peripheral Development Fund has been provided by Nalco to many educational...
DINSHA PATEL We created this new management program with the non-business major in mind. It will provide college ...
AJAY PATEL We were completely booked last week and we're about 75 percent booked so far.
AJAY PATEL Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.
DINSHA PATEL If I got a penny for every time I thought of your well being, I'd be the youngest billionaire.
RUPESH PATEL Your character is depend on your culture and your friendship.
ANKUR PATEL One of the guiding principles I learned from my parents led through my early schooling and continues...
CHIRAG PATEL My fingers are crossed, because I don't think I'll be the No 1 spinner.
JEETAN PATEL While tire pricing remains strong, high raw material prices and potentially weak high-margin markets...
HIMANSHU PATEL Ordinary professionals focus on giving worthless advises; extra-ordinary professionals focus on givi...
ASHISH PATEL Art has no boundaries and so does my imagination
SHIVAM.J. PATEL Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is de...
ASHISH PATEL Developers play an important role in helping to enhance Yahoo's vast network of services. These new ...
ASH PATEL You'll see an announcement from us about this in the future. Our aim is that by opening up our platf...
ASH PATEL We see a $2 billion cash injection as meaningful, even in light of GM's robust corporate liquidity. ...
HIMANSHU PATEL 'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager i...
DEV PATEL The ICC has a regulation that no advertisements can be displayed at the stadiums during Champions Tr...
BRIJESH PATEL I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.
DEV PATEL There's a fine line between confidence and cocky. If you know where that line falls for you, your su...
RUPESH PATEL Company and trustee boards have been engaged in finding solutions to pension deficits. Paying additi...
CHINU PATEL If they have evidence that he did something wrong, indict him and give him a forum where he can defe...
ANDREW PATEL We don't have an ace yet; maybe two aces.
RAJU PATEL Hate is just as strong of a word as love; be mindful when using either.
DHRUV PATEL Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business on...
ASHISH PATEL I am very happy. My patience and perseverance have finally paid off.
PARTHIV PATEL Efforts are meant to optimize, not to waste. The right time to optimize it is when others are open t...
ASHISH PATEL My parents were born in Africa [and] can speak Swahili, and that's how they communicate with each ot...
CHIRAG PATEL You can't get what you want, if the intentions are solely directed for self-benefits.
ASHISH PATEL They have failed. Why antagonize them? But they have failed.
PRAFUL PATEL It's a matter of how paranoid you are. What it could mean is that the president conceivably could si...
ANDREW PATEL Everything is not for the price, Something is for the existence.
DIXIT PATEL "It's always been an uphill battle against adversity; Tell me I can't do something and I'll prove yo...
KISHAN PATEL If you can't help many, just help the one who wants to help others....
ARIF PATEL When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don'...
ASHISH PATEL Anyone know how can erase mind memory?
HIREN PATEL We see a $US2 billion cash injection as meaningful, even in light of GM's robust corporate liquidity...
HIMANSHU PATEL Don't be Religious Freaks cz God is the Only Truth and Everything Else just Good stories to read...
ARIF PATEL The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the A...
DEV PATEL I hope we can refocus. The players are here to learn about playing in these conditions and we will b...
DIPAK PATEL The big lotto is in Connecticut, so the big money - they spend there.
DIPAK PATEL I thought rather than sit there and keep complaining, I'd do something about it.
DIPAK PATEL When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.
ASHISH PATEL The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.
ASHISH PATEL We think GM will see it as more of an opportunity than a risk to assist in a Delphi bailout, as it w...
HIMANSHU PATEL Besides KSCA, Andhra Cricket Association and Chennai have also offered to host the Champions Trophy ...
BRIJESH PATEL We have written to the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket India) that Bangalore is ready to meet all...
BRIJESH PATEL Give today to get better tomorrow.
ASHISH PATEL The fashion manufacturing sector sustains about 200 000 jobs and is vital to the economies of a numb...
EBRAHIM PATEL We can create many local jobs if all retailers were to take advantage of local capacity. We have wil...
EBRAHIM PATEL We now need all government procurement, from municipal to national, to be from local companies.
EBRAHIM PATEL We need a triple package: trade measures with China, a competitiveness package and an active 'buy lo...
EBRAHIM PATEL We were looking for a single information backbone, seamlessly connecting all our offices, customers,...
HITESH PATEL There's nothing you can do. Once it's done, just try to prevent it. All you can do is pray.
HITESH PATEL