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“A radical love story is the only device that makes the time-chariot of a village, a city, a country, gallop faster. Such a love story pulls the wheels of that chariot from a murky, regressive past towards a spotlessly clean road under autumn-blue skies. And for that chariot to move forward, to bring change in the village, you don’t have to be conscious of being a radical. You just have to fall in love.”
― The House with a Thousand Stories
― The House with a Thousand Stories
“Assamese life has more meaning than the violence, than its relationship with Delhi. Assam may not be sovereign politically, or economically, but the Assamese imagination has to remain sovereign.”
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“When my cousin Anil-da started telling us what he’d heard at the market about the groom’s family, at my aunt Moina-pehi’s wedding in January 2002, his eyes shone like inky marbles reflecting sunlight.”
― The House with a Thousand Stories
― The House with a Thousand Stories
“Rumours arrive at a wedding like unwanted guests”
― The House with a Thousand Stories
― The House with a Thousand Stories
“There was no possibility of redemption in his tale. There wasn’t an iota of hope in it. But the truth is, life goes on and stories have to end, and yet not end—which is also one of the features of any great story.”
― The House with a Thousand Stories
― The House with a Thousand Stories
