Sakshi Mathur
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‘Will it last long, Tripathi? This Emergency?’ ‘Who can say, Raja saab? At the moment the elites are most affected, the newspapermen, the politicians. The public, the truth be told, are quite relieved. They feel there’ll be some proper
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“all the Eastern religions were fundamentally atheistic.”
― The Way Things Were
― The Way Things Were
“Jinnah said, as early as in the first decade of the twentieth century, that separate electorates would lead to the destruction of Indian unity; and so they did.”
― 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
“A day spent reading is not a great day. But a life spent reading is a wonderful life.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“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
“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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