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It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem. Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, ploughing it up like gun-fire.
Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.
She woke to the sound of his heart knocking against his chest. As though it was searching for a way out.
[Are we] far more comfortable with the idea of poor people killing themselves in despair than with the idea of them fighting back?
The God of Loss.
The God of Small Things.
He left no footprints in the sand, no ripples in water, no image in mirrors.
The God of Small Things.
He left no footprints in the sand, no ripples in water, no image in mirrors.
I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.
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 in her hair.
Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?
Some days he walked along the banks of the river that smelled of shit and pesticides bought with World Bank loans.
For the first time in her life, Tilo felt that her body had enough room to accomodate all of its organs.
Why should propaganda be the exclusive preserve of the Western media? Just because they do it better?
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.
Our lungs are gradually being depleted of oxygen. Perhaps it's time to use whatever breath remains in our bodies to say: Open the bloody gates.
Rahel knew that this had happened because she had been hoping that it wouldn't. She hadn't learned to control her Hopes yet.
Argentina & Iraq have been decimated by the same process with different weapons; an IMF cheque & cruise missiles.
Democracy is the Free World's whore, willing to dress up, dress down, willing to satisfy a whole range of tastes.
Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest.
There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.
Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
Coercing a woman out of a burka is as bad as coercing her into one. It's not about the burka. It's about the coercion.
She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know
For the South African White minority, neo-liberalism is apartheid with a clean conscience, called Democracy.
NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.
Growth, 60 percent of India's workforce is self-employed, and 90 percent of India's labor force works in the unorganized sector.11
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises
War and Shopping
simply will not work.
War and Shopping
simply will not work.
On Rahel's heart Pappachi's moth snapped open its somber wings. Out. In. And lifted its legs. Up. Down.
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war.
The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.
Rahel never wrote to him. There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself.
Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin
... he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.
And on Ammu's road (to Age and Death) a small, sunny meadow appeared. Copper grass spangled with blue butterflies. Beyond it, an abyss.
they asked the poor what it was like to be poor, the hungry what it was like to be hungry, the homeless what it was like to be homeless.
Ammu quickly learned to recognize and despise the ugly face of sympathy. They ... gloated. She fought off the urge to slap them.
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.
It could be argued that it began long before Christianity arrived in a boat and seeped into Kerala like tea from a teabag.
There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.
The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.
Debating Imperialism is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape. What can we say? That we really miss it?
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.
There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes.
The TV channels never ran out of sponsorship for their live telecasts of despair. They never ran out of despair
Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?