Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.
Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.
There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.
she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.
Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.