Shrawani

“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

“In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept.”
― Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan

“Yes sir, they broke the mould when they made him. Then he went out in the world and the world broke him. No shame in that, you know. We all get broken sometimes. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.”
― Jason Mott, People Like Us

“The answer: assimilation. Always, the pressure is there. Assimilate, assimilate. Dissolve yourself into the melting pot. And then flow out, pour into the mould. Bend your bones until they splinter and crack and you fit. Force yourself into their form. Assimilate, they say it, encouraging. Then frowning. Then again and again. And always there, quiet, beneath the urging language of tolerance and cohesion - disappear!”
― Natasha Brown, Assembly