Suryendu Bhattacharyya

“Does a country fall into fascism the way a person falls in love? Or, more accurately, in hate?”
― Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction

“There was no system to soothe the unfairness of things; justice was without scope; it might snag the stealer of chickens, but great evasive crimes would have to be dismissed because, if identified and netted, they would bring down the entire structure of so-called civilization.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“The division in opinion on the use of the term (i.e - fascism) comes down to whether you believe that fascism became fascism only after a continent was destroyed and millions of people were exterminated in gas chambers, or whether you believe that fascism is an ideology that led to those high crimes - that can lead to those crimes - and that those who subscribe to it are fascists.”
― Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction

“He spoke the truth. Rusty always spoke the truth. He defined truth as feeling, and when he said what he felt, he said truth. (Only he didn’t always speak his feelings.) He never lied. You don’t have to lie if you know how to withhold the truth.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Room on the Roof