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

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

I firstly don't think of myself as an activist, I never have. I always say that, I think this word "activist" is relatively recent one. I don't remember when people started being called that or what it means. It reduces both writers and activists, it makes it seem as though a writer's job is to just keep people entertained with best-selling books and the activist's job to keep on repeating the same thing without a great deal of subtlety and intelligence. I don't think either is the case.

We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.

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 out of the world like a witch.