“Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.”

“I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men who do not wel...”

“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,...”

“Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.”

“To believe all you have to do is look at the sky.”

“To believe all you have to do is look at the sky.”