The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar Quotes

“Our separation will be a sacrifice, to keep a dream of our reunion alive.”
― Indra Das, The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar

“So yes, I do miss the home where I was born, on the distant shores of another reality. But it’s this world in which I saw my grandchild grow up into a beautiful person. For that alone I am grateful to be on Earth. I’ve already lived far longer than this world allows. You’re here to remember me. That’s all that matters.”
― Indra Das, The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar

“Everyone born on Earth has an ethnicity. It is, unfortunately, a signature left on our persons by god. That is to say, it is a signature left on us by our own hand, which has learned to write, and describe how we are different from each other, and how we may protect each other from our own hatreds by clinging to the packs and tribes we have made with language.”
― Indra Das, The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar

“Baba wrote, so I do too. So many years of learning in this house, eating my own tail. A student of the world, but not a part of it. I feel like I am inside an egg, waiting for someone to tap the shell.”
― Indra Das, The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar