10 Quotes by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn't even take him to Heaven.

They had nationalities even: Thai eggplant, Chinese eggplant, Italian eggplant. The United Nations of eggplants terrified me because I knew the oblong purple vegetable as baingan, brinjal in English, and I could cook it in five different ways. Would this exotic brinjal still yield to my hands?

I could travel back in time, way back, when at a home with too many mouths to feed, love was a constant accompaniment to each spare meal. ….With my food, I could recall the person I used to be. Before everything changed.

History was alive and entangled in the everyday stories of India, and it needed to be coaxed onto the pages of a book. In that sense, history was a woman, substantial, vigorous, complex andalways given the customary short shrift.

Eventually, there is one principle, and one principle alone on which the world is hinged: things will work out the way they should, provided we do what we should.

In Manhattan, brown men were either cab drivers or Wall Street bankers, immigrants or expatriates, the gulf between them as wide as a skyscraper was tall.

Niki recalled Nooran working on the embroidery as she scribbled or scrawled, both seated atop her bed. Faced with the prospect of IIMC, what would Nooran do? When the world darkened, Nooran turned to the bagh. When it dazzled, she embroidered some more. Whatever it threw at her, she seized it and wrote her own narrative.

With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn’t even take him to Heaven.

Intelligence is built on deception. Trust nothing. Not even the mirror.