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Stalin Mendes
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It is easy to forget ourselves when we contemplate pictorial and verbal descriptions of places. At home, as my eyes had panned over photographs of Barbados, there were no reminders that those eyes were intimately tied to a body and mind
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“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”
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“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― The Namesake
― The Namesake
“It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem. Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, ploughing it up like gun-fire.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes—and”
― The Palace of Illusions
― The Palace of Illusions
“It could be argued that it began long before Christianity arrived in a boat and seeped into Kerala like tea from a teabag.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
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