New Delhi, July 11 -- "The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind." - Kiran Desai

LiveMint's quote of the day by Kiran Desai, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss, is about the illusion of nostalgia and the psychological reality of human memory.

It suggests that the past is not a fixed, physical destination you can return to, but a fluid story that you are constantly rewriting based on who you are today.

This profound observation on the fluidity of memory originates from the 2006 Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Inheritance of Loss, written by Indian author Kiran Desai

The quote is spoken by the novel's central patriarch, Jemubhai Patel, a bitter, retired Indian Civil...