Thố Tử

“Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus, perhaps because it was difficult & rare, was more on greeting people?”
― Tabish Khair, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position by Tabish Khair

“This sudden sweet loot appearing, I felt like we were tricking the world—living in urban loopholes.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“The city continued on its way. Boys tried to sell me drumsticks, girls played hopscotch, the Bihari badly worker carried his gathri of ironed clothes to the homes from which they had come, and the buses honked at suicidal cyclists. At one level this was vaguely confusing. Surely, something should acknowledge how much things had changed? At another level, it was oddly comforting.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

“The epistemological separation of colony from metropolis, the systemic occultation of the colonial labour on which imperial prosperity is based, results in a situation in which... the truth of metropolitan existence is not visible in the metropolis itself”
― Fredric Jameson