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Only a man more qualified would dare marry an intelligent woman.
‘Standing alone in the face of infinity, it’s not your beliefs but what you have rejected that bothers you.’
The bachelors may keep the world spinning, but it’s the married ones that keep it grounded.
The struggle of an equal couple isn’t just the subject of ethnography. It is multi-disciplinary. Intimacy and distance operate like the tide—high during the day, peaking at mealtimes. The moon is a cup of tea, it pulls them to the zenith of their interaction. The nights are parched. Unconquered land separates their beds.
‘Tell me that the movement of lands and continents leaves behind memories of raindrops, even when the rains themselves have moved on.’
Disbelief, it turns out, is belief of its own kind. It is a river that flows against the overbearing currents of time and truth to make the opposite journey. It gathers all the mysteries of the ocean and returns them to their frozen origins. In the form of a glacier, it holds its head high up to look at god hiding behind the mists of heaven. What is the purpose of belief if even god can’t put the world back the way you worshipped it?
‘All of us are burdened by the twin destinies of saying goodbye to our loved ones and departing from our loved ones ourselves,’
Survivors of calamities bring the calamity with them, for it dwells permanently within.
But you cannot put yourself in someone else’s shoes until you remove your own.’
‘One prays for the long life of strangers one has met at sunset and hopes to see again at sunrise.’
‘You are not a ghazal or a poem or a song,’ she hears his voice. ‘Nor are you the muse. I know you. You are a poet.’
‘Some dreams are so beautiful and fragile, Ghazala, they are left unrealized.’
