The Light at the End of the World Quotes

“We would also like to point out that “Monkey Man” was the westernised version of the name, a clever, polite, convenient media translation of the kind applied once to the words of a famous Indian leader when he described Muslims as “kutte ke bachche” and found it rendered as the Hallmark-sanitised “puppies”. If one were to reverse the translation, and go from English to Hindi, New Delhi Monkey Man would, in the exquisitely racist, casteist and classist way of Indians, become Black Monkey or Kala Bandar.”
― Siddhartha Deb, The Light at the End of the World

“As Anand speaks, Bibi thinks of how interiors bear no resemblance to exteriors in this city. The same could be said of people, except that the relationship is reversed: the exterior coiffed and polished, the interior in ruins.”
― Siddhartha Deb, The Light at the End of the World