Isa

“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
― Arundhati Roy

“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

“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

“How can it be that this town is so full of people they're falling off the pavements and yet only in dreams am I in someone's arms?”
― Anjum Hasan, Difficult Pleasures