The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'. 'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.

Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

We need to start imagining the future or it will get imagined for us, and the ways that it has been imagined thus far don't seem very attractive.

I'm often surprised that, you know, you encounter all types of humanity. And very often, there are some very decent people who don't stereotype even when you might, in your own mind, have stereotyped them to think that they will.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.