Dinesh Jayaraman

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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.
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Harini Nagendra
“Women’s dreams were only as big as their husbands’ egos would permit them to be.”
Harini Nagendra, The Bangalore Detectives Club

Ursula K. Le Guin
“Terran man was clay, red dust. Athshean man was branch and root. They did not carve figures of themselves in stone, only in wood.”
Ursula K. Le Guin , The Word for World Is Forest

Ursula K. Le Guin
“But old women are different from everybody else, they say what they think.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest

Salman Rushdie
“For the rest of his life that was what he said to anyone who asked—and there were people who asked, because the world is a cynical and suspicious place and, being full of liars, thinks of everything as a lie. Which is what Vidyasagar’s story was.”
Salman Rushdie, Victory City

“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.”
Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

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