Afsal Najeeb

“But eventually, the Elixir of the Soul that had survived wars and the bloody birth of three new countries, was, like most things in the world, trumped by Coca-Cola.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“With Partition, in 1947, Roy writes, "God's carotid burst open on the new border between India and Pakistan and a million people died of hatred. Neighbours turned on each other as though they'd never known each other, never been to each other's weddings, never sung each other's songs." The consequences of that terrible event form the main story of "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Sleep came to them, quick and easy, like money to millionaires.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“The foreign newspapers had dumped the old exotics in favor of the younger generation. The exotics didn’t suit the image of the New India—a nuclear power and an emerging destination for international finance. Ustad”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness