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“Mona told herself that even if her recent feelings were a delusion, they were by far preferable to the thirty years of immaculate deception she had suffered in her first marriage. Yet she had to forgive Akbar Ahmad - perhaps because he was already dead.”
― The Story of a Widow
― The Story of a Widow
“Who can ever hold the essence of fire?
Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?”
― The Alchemy of Desire
Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?”
― The Alchemy of Desire
“You always maintained that he was a good father, but I always told you and I'll say it again today, so what if he was a good father? How does that redeem him if he was a bad husband?”
― The Story of a Widow
― The Story of a Widow
“I was still madly in love with her when I left her but the desire had died, and not all the years of sharing and caring and discovering and journeying could keep me from fleeing.”
― The Alchemy of Desire
― The Alchemy of Desire
“In the winter of 1987 India was full of iskeems that had gone awry. Agricultural iskeems, political iskeems, economic iskeems, educational iskeems, stop black money iskeems, attract white tourists iskeems, drinkable water iskeems, animal protection iskeems, women's welfare iskeems, nurture children iskeems, don't scan female foetus iskeems, privatization iskeems, medical iskeems, entertainment iskeems, old India iskeems and new India iskeems.
We had mastered the art of nomenclature from the white man.
Grand labels could disguise unforgivable things.”
― The Alchemy of Desire
We had mastered the art of nomenclature from the white man.
Grand labels could disguise unforgivable things.”
― The Alchemy of Desire
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