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She’s got really out there ideas about heroism, more knighthood than heroism especially even her peers found the idea of heroism too much. Heroism is someone taking care of you and defending you, but in such a backdrop how much is too much heroism? Her ideas are sounding like a contemporary Bollywood film.

Erm, this is very graphic and I’m traumatised.

Ah this is so bad. At 10 years old, Mehri, their maid, was given to their family because her family couldn’t support this many children. A maid, a caretaker, from the age of 10. She falls in love later but they cannot be together because of difference in social class and she has Marji write letters on her behalf because she can’t write. Makes me feel so bad, I used to have a very young handmaid back home as well.

The author draws God or depicts God, I don’t even know how to phrase it. This is not something we can do. She draws how she imagines God to look like I’m guessing and I feel really uncomfortable because wouldn’t this be shirk?

Una vez más… Open the schools and read it!!!

"But tell me how you'll arrange for old people not to suffer?"
"It will simply be forbidden."