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- I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother…
- Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have…
- When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people.…
- Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out,…
- A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest.…
- Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way…
- He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put…
- It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we…
- See, ma'am, frankly speaking this problem can't be solved by us police or military. The problem with these tribals is they don't understand greed. Unless…
- To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.…
- When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked…
- The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an…
- They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both…
- Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched…
- It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to…
- Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with…
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