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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.
“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
“It’s probably better to better to spend time with fictional characters than miss the ones I’ll never see again.”
― Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
― Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
“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
“Jawaharlal and Jinnah had announced the founding of two new kinds of democracies. Democracy, which is the last stage of human progress.”
― 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
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