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“When you face your fear, you become familiar with it and familiarity makes it lose its meaning, loosen its grip—fear ceases to be fear.”
― Half a Rupee: Stories
― Half a Rupee: Stories

“उम्मीद भी है, घबराहट भी कि अब लोग क्या कहेंगे, और इससे बड़ा डर यह है कहीं ऐसा ना हो कि लोग कुछ भी ना कहें!! गुलज़ार”
― रात पश्मीने की
― रात पश्मीने की

“She would not have understood, then, that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in the Stationery Shop, always. She and Bahman were one, and she and Walter were united. Kyle was her soul and Marigold would never die.”
― The Stationery Shop
― The Stationery Shop

“The past was always there, lurking in the corners, winking at you when you thought you'd moved on, hanging on to your organs from the inside.”
― The Stationery Shop
― The Stationery Shop

“सामने आए मेरे, देखा मुझे, बात भी की
मुस्कुराए भी, पुरानी किसी पहचान की ख़ातिर
कल का अख़बार था, बस देख लिया, रख भी दिया
English Translation-
Met me, saw me, spoke with me
Smiled as well, for the sake of an old relationship
Yesterday's newspaper, seen and put aside”
― Selected Poems
मुस्कुराए भी, पुरानी किसी पहचान की ख़ातिर
कल का अख़बार था, बस देख लिया, रख भी दिया
English Translation-
Met me, saw me, spoke with me
Smiled as well, for the sake of an old relationship
Yesterday's newspaper, seen and put aside”
― Selected Poems

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