“I have learnt that a good marriage is healing for the soul, something to relish. But a bad marriage is long-suffering, a thing to be endured. The only good thing about marriage is that its perishab...”

“She stood above the sink and broke the Swarovski glass frame a wedding gift with her hands. Her thumb got cut. As blood drops fell into the sink, like mercury balls she thought, she lit the photo...”

“Of all the roles shed played daughter, student, employee, sister and wife wife was the smallest and in proportion the most difficult, as though it had run out of steam with its own scale. The wor...”

“In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.”

“She stood above the sink and broke the Swarovski glass frame – a wedding gift – with her hands. Her thumb got cut. As blood drops fell into the sink, like mercury balls she thought, she lit the pho...”

“Of all the roles she’d played – daughter, student, employee, sister and wife – wife was the smallest and in proportion the most difficult, as though it had run out of steam with its own scale. The ...”

“The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most ofthe people understand the language of sword with greater power than thelanguage of word.”

“We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies bar...”

“Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.”

“To know India and her peoples, one has to know the monsoon. one has to know the monsoon. It is not enough to read about it in books, or see it on the cinema screen, or hear someone talk about it. I...”

“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle th...”

“Sometimes a rut can be a comfortable place to be, but ours was full of too many differences and resentments to be wholly comfortable. I had always had my own way in the marriage about what wed do,...”

“The city of Leonia refashions itself every day: every morning the people wake between fresh sheets, wash with just-unwrapped cakes of soap, wear brand-new clothing, take from the latest model refri...”

“sometimes I hearscreaming like a childand wake upto find its me”

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”