Shrawani

“To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

“How do we examine the legacy of colonization when the basic facts of its construction are disputed in the minds of its beneficiaries?”
― Natasha Brown, Assembly

“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“Was this how a mutiny was sparked? In a moment of heedlessness, so that one became a stranger to the person one had been a moment before? Or was it the other way around? That this was when one recognized the stranger that one had always been to oneself; that all one’s loyalties and beliefs had been misplaced?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace