Sakshi Mathur
http://sakshimathur.wordpress.com/
A day spent reading is not a great day. But a life spent reading is a wonderful life.”
“Cheery pessimism. Or weary idealism. Take your pick.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“Constantly defining yourself in opposition to what others say about you is not self-knowledge. It’s confusion.”
― 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
“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
“A day spent reading is not a great day. But a life spent reading is a wonderful life.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
Pune Book Club
— 272 members
— last activity Nov 13, 2024 02:34AM
This group is for book lovers from Pune, Maharashtra, India. You can share your reading experiences, post your reviews, ask or suggestions and many mo ...more
Central Book Club Too
— 21 members
— last activity Oct 15, 2021 01:06PM
Join fellow St. Louis Public Library 20- and 30-somethings in round-table discussion of contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. When: Every sec ...more
Sakshi’s 2025 Year in Books
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