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Quarterlife
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‘Wear all the masks you want, just don’t be surprised by your face when it catches you in a mirror.’
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“The only images of real value, she thinks, are the rejects – outtakes overwhelmed by the sun or blurred by dust, cropped edges with chaotic lines and broken faces – for the only honest composition inspired by such rupture is one that fails.”
― Quarterlife
― Quarterlife
“He never mentions his caste but jokes about his intolerance for spice; he introduces himself not as Naren but Agashe;”
― Quarterlife
― Quarterlife
“To get the scent of what’s next, and how to tweak and hoist it towards what should be, that’s what he’s about, and he has sensed that it is in heartland writers and English subtitles that his generation will find its tongue.”
― Quarterlife
― Quarterlife
“As Anand speaks, Bibi thinks of how interiors bear no resemblance to exteriors in this city. The same could be said of people, except that the relationship is reversed: the exterior coiffed and polished, the interior in ruins.”
― The Light at the End of the World
― The Light at the End of the World
“We would also like to point out that “Monkey Man” was the westernised version of the name, a clever, polite, convenient media translation of the kind applied once to the words of a famous Indian leader when he described Muslims as “kutte ke bachche” and found it rendered as the Hallmark-sanitised “puppies”. If one were to reverse the translation, and go from English to Hindi, New Delhi Monkey Man would, in the exquisitely racist, casteist and classist way of Indians, become Black Monkey or Kala Bandar.”
― The Light at the End of the World
― The Light at the End of the World
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