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The Promise
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I don’t have a life of my own; I have only feelings. My experiences were never important—not during the course of my life nor even on the threshold of death. Instead, the lives of others have become mine.
“But old women are different from everybody else, they say what they think.”
― The Word for World is Forest
― The Word for World is Forest
“I don’t know what ‘human nature’ is. Maybe leaving descriptions of what we wipe out is part of human nature.”
― The Word for World Is Forest
― The Word for World Is Forest
“for a language to acquire retroflexion is for it to become South Asian.”
― Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
― Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
“In many elite Hindu families in the Delhi region and the North-west, until about the time of Partition it was the custom for boys to learn Persian and Urdu and be literate in the Persian script, while the girls were taught Devanagari. Among elite Sikh families too, the boys would similarly be schooled in Persian and Urdu and know the Persian script, while the girls were taught Gurmukhi, the Punjabi script in which the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book, is written.”
― Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
― Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
“Fictions could be as powerful as histories, revealing the new people to themselves, allowing them to understand their own natures and the natures of those around them, and making them real. This was the paradox of the whispered stories: they were no more than make-believe but they created the truth, and brought into being a city and an army with all the rich diversity of nonfictional people with deep roots in the actually existing world.”
― Victory City
― Victory City
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