They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits. I left home when I was sixteen and lived in places where it was very easy for me to have fallen the other way. I could have been on the large convoy because I was a woman and I was alone. In India, that's not a joke. I could have ended up very, very badly. I'm lucky that I didn't.

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble.

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.