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A Room in Bombay: A Memoir

by Manil Suri

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Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told

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Kitnay Aadmi Thay : Completely Useless Bollywood Trivia

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“New freedoms, as they often do, came with fresh limitations and rules, however unspoken.”
― Michael Koresky, Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

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“Pradeep and I were fused together by sorrow. It was more intense than love.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

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“The priests in church said it would be as difficult for the rich to go to heaven as it was for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. I imagined the rich were busy making a gigantic needle with a huge, camel-sized eye. If you think about it, that needle has been forged. It exists. And a ceaseless cavalcade of camels passes through it.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

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“If you took music out of Bollywood, you would only be left with Hollywood.”
― Diptakirti Chaudhuri, Bollybook: The Big Book of Hindi Movie Trivia

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“I was soon being called a writer-activist, a term I found absurd because it suggested that writing about things that vitally affected people’s lives was not the remit of a writer.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

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