Kamala Markandaya

“There is a rare gentleness in you, the sweeter for its brief appearances.”

— Kamala Markandaya

“He sighed impatently. 'You simplify everything, being without understanding. Your views are so limited it is impossible to explain to you.' 'Limited,…

— Kamala Markandaya

“We had for so long accepted her obedience to our will that when it ceased to be given naturally, it came as…

— Kamala Markandaya

To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there…

— Kamala Markandaya

“Troubles,' he said. 'We all have them.”

— Kamala Markandaya

“Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk…

— Kamala Markandaya

“We live by our labors from one harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to…

— Kamala Markandaya

“The truth is unpalatable.”

— Kamala Markandaya

“That is all you can think of: what people will say! One goes from one end of the world to the other…

— Kamala Markandaya

“You must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning…

— Kamala Markandaya

“Well, and what if we give in to our troubles at every step! We would be pitiable creatures indeed to be so…

— Kamala Markandaya

“She was no longer a child, to be cowed or forced into submission, but a grown woman with a definite purpose and…

— Kamala Markandaya

Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together.…

— Kamala Markandaya

Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger…

— Kamala Markandaya

For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the…

— Kamala Markandaya

Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand.

— Kamala Markandaya