In our youth, we saw no ungainly paunches, no scrawny bodies among the law-keepers. Nor


“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. What”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“It seemed a shame to bargain with one who had learned the tricks of guarding her business, of protecting her trade against greedy intruders.”
― Breathless in Bombay
― Breathless in Bombay
“Thackeray aggressively put forward his theory of Thokshahi and called it ‘constructive violence’,”
― Bal Thackeray & The Rise of the Shiv Sena
― Bal Thackeray & The Rise of the Shiv Sena

“the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself”
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“To him (Bal Thackeray) all southerners were Madrasis and all northerners, Bhaiyyas… He”
― Bal Thackeray & The Rise of the Shiv Sena
― Bal Thackeray & The Rise of the Shiv Sena

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