The Lost Man of Bombay Quotes

“Our struggle to rid ourselves of the British has convinced the average citizen that any authority might be overturned, by the simple expedient of disobedience. The one authority to which this rule doesn’t seem to apply is one none of us can see or touch or hear, at least not directly.’ She looked at him blankly. ‘God, Persis.”
― Vaseem Khan, The Lost Man of Bombay

“The battle with India’s colonisers was over, but the battle for women to take their place in the new society Nehru was fashioning was just beginning.”
― Vaseem Khan, The Lost Man of Bombay

“That had been Gandhi’s great achievement. To demonstrate to the world that you couldn’t claim to be the arbiters of fair play while cheating your fellow man at every turn.”
― Vaseem Khan, The Lost Man of Bombay

“In the Old Country, a pukka accent and a sterling education meant little when set beside the colour of a man’s skin.”
― Vaseem Khan, The Lost Man of Bombay

“The shadow of Partition still lay over the country, the communal violence unleashed during those terrible years, lingering in the memory like a dark dream. If a fractious peace reigned, it was merely the embodiment of Nehru’s will; sporadic bouts of violence continued to shatter the notional unity.”
― Vaseem Khan, The Lost Man of Bombay

“In a place like Bombay, the concept of innocent until proven guilty only applied to those with wealth, power, or influence.”
― Vaseem Khan, The Lost Man of Bombay

“A lingering hangover from the colonial era might have dulled her political senses, but India was now awake, seven millennia of tradition and history reasserting itself.”
― Vaseem Khan, The Lost Man of Bombay

“India was steaming ahead, forging an identity that would define her place in the world in the decades to come.”
― Vaseem Khan, The Lost Man of Bombay

“It seemed not to occur to her detractors that their objections were at odds with the ideals of the new India. Hadn’t women fought the same fight, shed the same blood? Why should they be denied the right to participate in Nehru’s bright new dawn?”
― Vaseem Khan, The Lost Man of Bombay

“Independence had brought freedom to the country, but with it had come opportunists settling into the vacuum left by the departing British.”
― Vaseem Khan, The Lost Man of Bombay

“Gandhi’s great achievement. To demonstrate to the world that you couldn’t claim to be the arbiters of fair play while cheating your fellow man at every turn.”
― Vaseem Khan, The Lost Man of Bombay