Athira Mohan

“I feel at home in the entire world, wherever
there are clouds and birds and human tears”
― Rosa Luxemburg, The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg

“if you were to identify a single person who embodies us Indians the best, who do you think it should be? Ideally, it should be a tribal woman because she is most likely to be carrying the deepest-rooted and widest-spread mtDNA lineage in India today, M2. In a genetic sense, she would represent all of our history, with very little left out. She shares the most with the largest number of Indians, no matter where in the social ladder they stand, what language they speak and which region they inhabit because we are all migrants, and we are all mixed.”
― Tony Joseph, Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

“a person who, as the line went, would live in many places and die everywhere.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

“Kindsein hat nichts mit dem Alter zu tun, sagte die Stimme. Schon gar nicht mit der Größe. Kindsein heißt staunen können.”
― Edith Schreiber-Wicke, Amadeus Wunderkind