Pyre

by Perumal Murugan

We work so hard day and night, but what’s the point? Are we going to take it all with us when we die? Everything makes sense only as long as we are alive.

Even love and affection need money. If you don’t have money, no one will bother with you.

‘Being dead does not mean you have settled your accounts. You are answerable no matter where you are.’