Timeri N. Murari > Quotes

“Cricket is theater, it's dance, it's an opera. It's dramatic. It's about individual conflict that takes place on a huge stage. But the two warriors also represent the ten other players; it's a relationship between the one and the many. The individual and the social, the leader and the follower, the individual and the universal.”
― Timeri N. Murari, The Taliban Cricket Club

“Isa looked down the river to the Taj Mahal. It shone harshly in the midday sun, the marble glared back at the sky and it stood isolated and alone. It needed a companion of beauty, but there was none in this world. Isa had thought long about the tomb; it had life, it breathed. He imagined the rise and fall of the stone as it sighed. He realized it was lonely. It was a perfect thing in an imperfect world, and that was an awesome burden.”
― Timeri Murari, Taj: A Story of Mughal India

“Like all who inhabit a police state, we live bland and obedient outer lives, while our inner ones seeth in rebellion.”
― Timeri N. Murari, The Taliban Cricket Club

“This is blackmail,” Veer said, still angry. “No, this is Afghanistan,” Jahan replied.”
― Timeri N. Murari, The Taliban Cricket Club