Pradeep E

“Pain is for the living; the dead are immune to the consequences of death.”
― Suchitra Vijayan, Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India

“Because in real life, unlike in history books, stories come to us not in their entirety but in bits and pieces, broken segments and partial echoes, a full sentence here, a fragment there, a clue hidden in between. in life, unlike in books, we have to weave our stories out of threads as fine as the gossamer veins that run through a butterfly's wings.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“Words are powerful, and they have the capacity to normalise hate. To call a human being illegal is not only racist and inaccurate, but also dehumanising. No human being is illegal. Existing is not illegal.”
― Suchitra Vijayan, Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India

“Modern Bombay, in a sense, has its genesis in the poppy fields of Bihar.”
― Amitav Ghosh, Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories