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“poverty eventually made criminals of everyone, even those who swore to resist—it was the only way to transcend the free fall of their marginalized lives.”
― Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
― Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
“if one woman doesn’t help another, we will all suffer.”
― Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
― Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
“The three flower shops were obliterated. The petals of the once-dewy flowers and their sellers' flesh burnt together. The people reacted and, unlike the birds, they did not react in unison. They ran towards the narrow streets near the masjid, trampling over the old and limping beggars. They pushed and shoved and cursed and cried. The birds circled in the air, pitying the humans who had lost their humanity.”
― A Darker Dawn
― A Darker Dawn
“Does an iris seek to repay the sun which gave it life? No. The mere beauty of the iris is tenfold thanks enough for each day the sun can see the wonder it created.”
― Beneath a Marble Sky
― Beneath a Marble Sky
“An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a second Partition: and a partition in the Indian soul would be as bad as a partition in the Indian soil. For my sons, the only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts. An India neither Hindu nor Muslim, but both. That is the only India that will allow them to continue to call themselves Indians.”
― Riot
― Riot
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Sheza’s 2025 Year in Books
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