God save us from people who mean well.
I’m not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I’m a hedgehog.
Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen – that nearly causes bloodshed.
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.