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Fiction is a portal to a deeper understanding of myself, and when I went through it the first time, I knew I would write fiction the rest of my life.

“Arif, will we, a handful of writers, succeed in making amends for such a vast trauma?”
― The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India
― The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India

“Socialism had succeeded in ripping the veil off women's head, but not in the minds of their men. It had managed to tear chains carrying crosses from their wives' chests, but those chains still shackled their husbands' brains.”
― Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
― Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
“Hatred has assumed the shape of truth.”
― The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India
― The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India
“The mind refuses to accept that at a distance of 20 miles begins a foreign nation, another alien culture. Can't there be a greater spell cast that will blow up this border to smithereens?”
― The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India
― The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India

“My mother did not fight and conquer her fears. She never knew fear in the first place.”
― Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
― Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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