New Delhi, March 2 -- Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and essayist Margaret Atwood is widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary writers in English. Atwood, best known for her novel "The Handmaid's Tale", a dystopian work that explores the themes of authoritarianism and gender oppression, has also received numerous international awards. Her writing leaves an indelible mark on the readers.

In Quote of the Day, we focus on one of Atwood's most popular quotes: "War is what happens when language fails."

The quote, which seems very simple on the surface, is in fact one of the hard-hitting quotes that one can come across. Atwood made this statement in 1993 in her novel The Robber Bride. It implies that war results f...