Manu Joseph

From present day to....
When I was eighteen....
What I know now and you didn’t then....

• A short story need not have a twist in the end.
• Midnight’s Children is not the greatest book ever written.
• Nationalism is a waste of time. Also, the fact is, contrary to your convictions, ancient Hindus did not discover the heliocentric theory.
• Of course, there is love.
• J. Krishnamurthy, if you look more closely, has not answered a single bloody question about life that he puts forward at the beginning of a sermon. What you like are his questions.
• Just because there is a question it does not mean there is an answer.
• You will be fine.
• SK, your dearest friend, says that the world is an illusion and that there is a startling truth hiding in plain sight, he says all this not because he is very close to enlightenment but because he is in the early stages of something called schizophrenia.
• SM likes you, you moron. Move.
• The Hindu will never ever publish any of your Letters to the Editor. But the good news is you will indeed have sex one day.
• Children are exquisite.
• Around this time, right now perhaps, somewhere not very far away, your future girlfriend is naked with someone.
• Sachin Tendulkar is still playing. It is 2013.