harshini mohan

“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“kaatruveliyidai kannamma
nindran kaadhalai yenni kalikkindren
amudhootrinai otha idhazhgalum
nilavoori thadhumbum vizhigalum

pathu maatru ponnotha nin meniyum indha vaiyathil yaanula mattilum yenai
vetru ninaivindri thetriye ingor
vinnavanaaga puriyume..
indha kaatru veliyidai kannamma nindran kaadhalai yenni kalikkindren

nee yenathinnuyir kannamma
yendha neramum nindranai potruven
thuyar poyina poyina thunbangal
ninai ponnena konda pozhuthile
yendran vaayinile amudhoorudhe
kannamma yendra per sollum pothile
uyir theeyinile valar jothiye nidran
sindhanaiye yendhan sithame indha kaatru veliyidai kannamma nindran
kaadhalai yenni kalikkindren”
― Subramaniya Bharathiyar

“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth