Varun

“Took myself to Byculla. The area around the elephants is very soothing. I wish I were an elephant. I would be so composed.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

“If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . .
No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of schoolboys with nothing much to do, death by drowning.
But of all these, I feared the most the possibility that I might go mad too.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

“I wanted to understand her predicament because I was her son and I loved her with a helpless corroded love.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

“I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom