Arabian Sea Quotes

“within minutes, the entire village was in the water, splashing about, falling over, getting up, moving steadily forwards towards the horizon; never looking back to shore ... "come back," he beseeched his wife: "nothing is happening. come back!”
― Salman Rushdie

“Being born in Mumbai, I inherited the syntax of its distinct vocabulary. The undulant range of people as vibrant as the thrum of the Arabian Sea, smells of mogra, gulab, and champa from Dadar market, and songs of fisherman as Marine Drive gleams with the first light of dawning.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“When I was a young girl, my parents often visited a temple from where the Arabian Sea was visible. I accompanied them only to look forward to the few moments where sea mist and a widening orb of space juxtaposed.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“another nameless dusk
passing over the Arabian Sea

last rowboats
dimly visible

at the sealine hem
you, reading

from a holy book
syllables as crisp as the oncoming rain.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta