जब मुझे इतिहास की समझ हुई, तो मैंने महसूस किया कि इतिहास के कुछ महत्वपूर्ण मोड़ त्रासदी, आपदा और बलिदान के इर्द-गिर्द बुने गए हैं, जिन्होंने लोगों को जीवित रहने, आत्म-चिंतन करने और बेहतरी की उम्मीद के साथ आगे बढ़ने के लिए प्रेरित किया।

Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment.

Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment.

Topic Society & World History
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 95%

मैं अक्सर किसी बात को समझने से पहले उसे महसूस कर लेता हूँ।

I usually feel something before I know it.

I usually feel something before I know it.

Topic Emotions & Inner Life Peace
Themes #Inner Peace
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Observation 95%

जब भी मैं इतिहास के किसी ऐसे दुखद क्षण में गया जहाँ कुछ भयानक हुआ था, तो वह मेरे लिए एक सीख का पल था, उन लोगों के लिए एक सबक जो उस त्रासदी से बच गए थे।

Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.

Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.

Topic Society & World Lessons of History
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 95%

मैं इतिहास के प्रति अपने दृष्टिकोण में निष्पक्ष और संतुलित रहने की कोशिश करता हूँ। मैं एक पक्ष का महिमामंडन और दूसरे का दानवीकरण नहीं करता, हालाँकि मेरा मानना है कि यदि आप बहुत कष्ट सह रहे हैं, विशेष रूप से बॉब मार्ले के शब्दों में कहें तो, दुख एक ऐसा विश्वविद्यालय बन जाता है जहाँ से आप जीवन के कठोर सबक सीखते हैं।

I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.

I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.

Topic Society & World Lessons of History
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Reflection 95%

मैं उपनिवेशवाद के गलत पक्ष पर था। मेरी वंशावली मुख्य रूप से औपनिवेशिक अनुभव में फंसी रही है, पहले गुलामों के रूप में और फिर स्वतंत्र विषयों के रूप में, एक उत्तर-औपनिवेशिक अनुभव के साथ।

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.

Topic Society & World Freedom
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Reflection 95%

यदि आप केवल विशेषाधिकारों में डूबे हुए हैं, तो सीखने के लिए कुछ नहीं बचता; ऐसा लगता है कि सीखना समाप्त हो गया है।

If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.

If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.

Topic Knowledge & Learning Learning
Tone: Cynical Sentiment: Negative Type: Observation 92%

यदि आपने हवा में एक ऐसी जगह बनाई है जहाँ वे सांस ले रहे हैं और दौड़ रहे हैं, और फिर वे उस काल्पनिक परिवेश में बात करते हैं, तो यह पूरी तरह से प्रामाणिक होता है क्योंकि पूरी दुनिया आप पर निर्भर करती है, जिसने इसे संभव बनाया है।

If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.

If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Philosophical 92%

जो लोग पीड़ित हैं, उन्हें त्रासदी से बाहर निकलने के लिए उससे बाहर निकलने के रास्ते खुद ही खोजने होंगे।

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.

Topic Adversity & Resilience Suffering
Tone: Wise Sentiment: Positive Type: Wisdom 95%

चूंकि मैं सहज रूप से और एक-एक छवि व पल को जोड़कर लिखता हूँ, इसलिए मेरे लेखन को भावनाओं और संवेदनाओं से प्रेरित होना पड़ता है।

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 98%

मैं किसी किताब के साथ सालों तक जुड़ा नहीं रह सकता जब तक कि उसमें भावनाएं न हों। मेरे लिए यह सिर्फ एक विचार नहीं हो सकता - इसे महसूस किया जाना चाहिए।

I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.

I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 95%

सहानुभूति की खाई को पाटने के लिए, आप वास्तव में चाहते हैं कि व्यक्ति भावनात्मक रूप से [आपके विषय और पात्रों के साथ] जुड़ जाए, और जब आप ऐसा कर लेते हैं, तब आप इतिहास, राजनीति या किसी अन्य विषय पर अपना सबक चुपके से जोड़ सकते हैं।

To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.

To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Advice 95%

ब्रूस ली लड़ाई से पहले यह कल्पना करने की कोशिश करते थे कि मुकाबला कैसा होगा, क्योंकि वे जीत की ओर ले जाने वाले रास्ते की कल्पना कर रहे होते थे।

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

Topic Achievement & Work Goals
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Wisdom 95%

कल्पना और वास्तविकता के बीच फर्क करना बहुत जरूरी है, क्योंकि अगर हकीकत ही सब कुछ कर रही है, तो फिर आपने कल्पना का सहारा क्यों लिया? और एक बार जब आप यह सवाल उठाते हैं कि 'कल्पना क्यों?' तो आपको अपने लेखन में ही उस सवाल का जवाब एक क्रियात्मक रूप में देना पड़ता है।

There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer.

There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Thought-provoking 95%

एक लेखक के तौर पर मेरे लिए किसी आपदा की गहराई तक जाना, उसे महसूस करना और फिर उस अनुभव से कोई सबक सीखना बहुत शिक्षाप्रद और रचनात्मक रहा है।

I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.

I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 98%

लोग 'चीज़केक फैक्ट्री' जैसी एक बनी-बनाई और आरामदायक जिंदगी जीने के आदी हो गए हैं।

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

Topic Life & Existence Life
Tone: Cynical Sentiment: Negative Type: Observation 92%

कल्पना का एक बड़ा हिस्सा मन की उपज होता है।

Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

Topic Creativity & Expression Creativity
Themes #Imagination
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Observation 95%

लोग हमेशा भूखे, डरे हुए, परेशान और असुरक्षित महसूस करते थे - इसलिए मैंने सोचा कि इसे अपने उपन्यास में एक दम घोंटने वाले माहौल के रूप में दिखाऊं।

People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.

People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Negative Type: Reflection 92%

साहित्य में 'जादुई यथार्थवाद' (मैजिकल रियलिज्म) का इस्तेमाल अक्सर तब किया जाता है जब कोई अपनी बात कह न पा रहा हो और उसे किसी जादुई तरीके से फिर से जीवंत करने की जरूरत हो।

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Literary 92%

मेरा मानना है कि कविता से नीतियां बन सकती हैं, और यह सुनकर लोग भले ही हंसें, पर मैं उनकी हंसी सुन सकता हूं।

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Thought-provoking 95%

जब आप किसी कहानी के अंत तक पहुंचते हैं, तो उसकी प्रक्रिया 1) सहज होती है; और 2) भावनात्मक। मुझे लगता है कि उसकी बुद्धिमत्ता भावनात्मक होती है।

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Reflection 95%

बच्चे आपको बिस्तर से उठने पर मजबूर कर देते हैं। वे आपको मुस्कुराने के लिए विवश करते हैं। वे आपको याद दिलाते हैं कि सहजता क्या होती है।

With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.

With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.

Topic Relationships & Love Family
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Observation 95%

मेरे दादाजी पुर्तगाली थे। उन्होंने समाज की अपेक्षाओं को ठुकराकर मेरे पिता की तरफ से मेरी दादी से शादी की, जो अफ्रीकी मूल की थीं।

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

Topic Relationships & Love Family
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Reflection 95%

मैं चाहता हूं कि कोई ऐसा सिद्धांत सामने आए जो नीतियों का मार्गदर्शन कर सके।

I want a theory to come out to guide policy.

I want a theory to come out to guide policy.

Topic Knowledge & Learning Science
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Thought-provoking 92%

किसी युवा को अपनी बात रखने का मौका देने के लिए, उसे खुद बोलने के लिए माइक थमाने के लिए, आपको एक काल्पनिक ढांचा तैयार करना होगा, वरना लोग कहेंगे कि आप उनके मुंह में अपनी बातें डाल रहे हैं।

To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.

To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Observation 92%

तंत्रिका तंत्र पर पड़ने वाला पहला प्रभाव मेरे लिए सबसे महत्वपूर्ण है, क्योंकि मुझे लगता है कि अगर आप पाठक को भावनात्मक रूप से छू लेते हैं, तो फिर वह उन सीखों को नहीं भूल सकता जो वह शायद सीखना चाहता था।

The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

Topic Creativity & Expression Writing
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Reflection 92%