Abhilasha Singh

“Occupation prevents you from managing your affairs in your own way. It interferes in every aspect of life and of death; it interferes with longing and anger and desire and walking in the street. It interferes with going anywhere and coming back, with going to market, the emergency hospital, the beach, the bedroom, or a distant capital.
Everybody I spoke with here told me about their new favorite pastime of staying out late, an exaggerated staying-up in the houses of relatives and friends. But things here are temporary. The sense of security is temporary.”

Excerpt From: Mourid Barghouti. “I Saw Ramallah”.”
― Mourid Barghouti

“Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker," said Giovanni, as though he had not heard me, "and so you can stand less and less.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Politics is the number of coffee-cups on the table, it is the sudden presence of what you have forgotten, the memories you are afraid to look at too closely, though you look anyway. Staying away from politics is also politics. Politics is nothing and it is everything.”

Excerpt From: Mourid Barghouti. “I Saw Ramallah”.”
― Mourid Barghouti

“Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums”
― Michael Frayn, Copenhagen