749 Quotes About India

In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields?

I watched the rows and rows of chappals left by devotees outside the Hindu temple and wondered if the homeless boys who sometimes steal our chickens ever steal them, and if they do, are they punished, and if so by whom?

I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do.

Every family has secrets, Reena, and they’re there for a reason.

But he’s an untouchable, Shirin.’ ‘He’s my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.

There’s a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain...

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!