“Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving that makes it fat”
-Emily Dickinson













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“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.”
-Salman Rushdie

















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Political

“Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.”
-Salman Rushdie


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One of Indira Gandhi's slogans was borrowed for our new urinal for school. On the wall that we faced when we stood in a line to pee, someone had written in pencil: "Aaapka bhavishya aapke haath mein hai" (You hold the future in your hand). This was the way in which politics entered our adolescent universe- as a private part of human anatomy.
-Kumar, 88


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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
-Mahatma Gandhi, 1931


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"It's easy to preach on a full stomach....If I didn't have to work for a living and support a family, then I can be on my high horse. Most of these kids are just trying to make ends meet."
-Arundhati Roy, according to Kumar


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"The lumpen display of power in the Bihar legislature and elsewhere is not wholly removed from the schoolyard in which the boy had made an obscene remark about my sister."
-Kumar, 94


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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
-Gandhi


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MUSIC:

Fun^Da^Mental, DIY Cookbook


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"We can not enter the text but they can enter us."
-Sarah













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“The Possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination”
-Emily Dickinson

“The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.”
-Salman Rushdie

"For Love is Immortality."
-Emily Dickinson


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Arundhati Roy on Love

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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MARRIAGE:

MAMAANDPAPA. MamaPapa. PapaMama. It was hard to believe they had ever had separate existences, that they had been separate entities and not MamaPapa in one breath. Yet Mama had been born to a merchant family in the city of Kanpur and lived in the bosom of her enormous family till at sixteen she married Papa. Papa, in Patna, the son of a tax inspector with one burning ambition, to give his son the best available education, had won prizes at school meanwhile, played tennis as a young man, trained for the bar, and had eventually built up a solid practice. This much the children learnt chiefly from old photographs, framed certificates, tarnished medals and the conversations of visiting relatives. MamaPapa themselves rarely spoke of a time when they were not one. The few anecdotes the related separately acquired great significance because of their rareity, their singularity.
-Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting, p. 5

“Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.”
-Emily Dickinson

Marriage didn't have to do with sex. It dealt with money. There was never enough money for dowries. This left us open to humiliation, but even this was not necessarily aggrivating because the girl's side was expected to abase themselves.
-Kumar, 90

-Historically people did not marry for love.
-Sarah Williams, as I remember it, November 4th, 2010
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