Sakshi Mathur

“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!”
― Aatish Taseer, The Way Things Were

“Looking back at that trip, I see now the broad outlines of the same dilemmas that would lead America into the era of Trump: seething anger; open hostility to strangers and those with views opposing one’s own; a contempt for news delivered by allegedly reputable sources; an embrace of reactionary moral posturing; civic and governmental corruption that no longer needed hiding; and married to all this, the ever-hastening redistribution of wealth to those who had it at the continued expense of those who didn’t.”
― Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies

“all the Eastern religions were fundamentally atheistic.”
― Aatish Taseer, The Way Things Were

“Constantly defining yourself in opposition to what others say about you is not self-knowledge. It’s confusion.”
― Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies