Nivedita Roy

“Will you hold me Nick
And fulfill this craving,
Touch my waist,
And trace in Italics?
And kiss my lips,
For they are laced
With a veiled wish.
Hold aloft my chin,
Like you want to win
Me, and on my skin,
Tell me can you sniff
A submission to sin?
Look into my eyes
Dearest, can you read
My peering soul script?
Because it says honey,
That you are my beginning
And the endings of my end.”
― Nivedita Roy, Dear Nick

“There were times she longed to be different, but she guessed everyone felt that way at one time or another, and so in wanting to be different, everyone was the same.”
― Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

“A woman should have no need for a man. Millicent could sit by the sea and hold her own hand, she supposed. It was why she had two.”
― Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

“But this? This is not development. This is looting. If land is to be acquired, it must be done fairly. The people must be compensated, not only monetarily, but with jobs, with dignity, with a future. Not a Shunya future, a real future, a people’s future. Do you know what Shunya means? Nothing.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice