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Sakshi Mathur
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A day spent reading is not a great day. But a life spent reading is a wonderful life.”
“Yes. Go-ghna! Which is apparently an irregular upapada tatpuruṣa. So instead of meaning noxious to kine, it is derived as: for whom a cow is killed.’ Maniraja winced. ‘And guess what that is? A guest! Go-ghna is a synonym for guest. Now go tell the men in saffron that!”
― The Way Things Were
― The Way Things Were
“Constantly defining yourself in opposition to what others say about you is not self-knowledge. It’s confusion.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“Muslims of British India had opted for a separate homeland in 1947, destroying the possibility of a secular India in which Hindus and Muslims would coexist, because they believed that they would be physically safe, and their religion secure, in a new nation called Pakistan. Instead, within six decades, Pakistan had become one of the most violent nations on earth, not because Hindus were killing Muslims but because Muslims were killing Muslims.”
― Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan – An Essential History of Muslim-Hindu Cultures and the Taliban Context in South Asia
― Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan – An Essential History of Muslim-Hindu Cultures and the Taliban Context in South Asia
“The established majority takes its we-image from a minority of its best, and shapes a they-image of the despised outsiders from the minority of their worst.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“For now, let me try to stay alive and just say these three things: as Muslims, (1) we are more affected by the example of the Prophet than we realize; (2) we are shaped by the stories we tell about him in ways that elude our daily understanding; and (3) there will be no meaningful philosophical shift in the sociopolitical substratum of the Muslim world until the example of the Prophet and the text of the Quran are exposed to a more robust interrogation of their claims to historical truth.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
Pune Book Club
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Central Book Club Too
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Sakshi’s 2025 Year in Books
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