Every war has its martyrs — the unsung heroes who sometimes don’t even know the rationale behind the war they are fighting. They fight because they are trained to, kill because they are told to and die because they are destined to.

— Anurag Shourie

For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.

— Anurag Shourie

It’s a strange feeling when you realize that you have become a passive bystander, watching the quirks of your own fate with an icy indifference.

— Anurag Shourie

Love is just like God. Some believe in it, some don’t. You can only feel love and that too if you are open to its existence. Likewise, an atheist cannot feel the presence of the divine because his mind is shut to the possibility of there being one.

— Anurag Shourie

Marcus Brutus was the original tragic hero of the play ‘Julius Caesar’, Aditya concluded. Perhaps, Shakespeare should have named his play ‘Marcus Brutus’. But then again, it all must have boiled down to salability and marketing; Julius Caesar being the more famous and thus bankable name. Ironical it was, Aditya smiled. The same Shakespeare had once said-‘What’s in a name...

— Anurag Shourie

Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.

— Anurag Shourie

Not very tall, not very dark but very...very handsome,’ was his way of describing himself.

— Anurag Shourie

Take it easy. Live life-one day at a time. It is only when we add the regrets of 'yesterday' and worries of the 'future' to the 'present' that we end up complicating things...

— Anurag Shourie

Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.

— Anurag Shourie

The best-laid plans can fail for the lack of proper execution.

— Anurag Shourie