What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes…

We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

— Raymond Khoury

Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?’ ‘No, Ma.’ ‘Then what put…

— Renita D'Silva

“Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.”

— Renita D'Silva

“What wouldn’t my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?”

— Renita D'Silva

“I watched the rows and rows of chappals left by devotees outside the Hindu temple and wondered if the homeless boys who sometimes steal…

— Renita D'Silva

“You are a girl, Shirin. Girls don’t run around naked.’‘Why?’‘They just don’t.”

— Renita D'Silva

“Every family has secrets, Reena, and they’re there for a reason.”

— Renita D'Silva

“What use is status if you have no one to share it with, Dad?”

— Renita D'Silva

“Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields?”

— Renita D'Silva

“But he’s an untouchable, Shirin.’ ‘He’s my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.”

— Renita D'Silva

“What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!”

— Renita D'Silva

“She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish orange leaf swirling in the…

— Renita D'Silva

“There’s a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And…

— Renita D'Silva

“You put cow dung on my face?’ ‘Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?”

— Renita D'Silva