Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are being killed and imprisoned in their thousands. Theirs is a battle of the imagination, a battle for the redefinition of the meaning of civilisation, of the meaning of happiness, of the meaning of fulfilment.

An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.