"What she had believed was indignation or rage……" — Thrity Umrigar
"What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this bewitching planet, this thrilling life, this heartbreaking species she belonged to, with its capacity for stupefying destruction and breathtaking magnanimity."
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India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into…
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And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I…
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Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away…
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