"... the floor was a stone slab of coolness, an expanse of warm ice that would not melt."

"There has been writing for 10 days now"

"'I think of Ramu. The Ramu I know and the Ramu I'm writing about have become indistinguishable. The same's true of th…"

"It's a well-known fact that no novel is taken seriously in India until a good deal of research has gone into it. This…"

"There must be other leaps in life - as momentous as the "mirror stage" - that Lacan didn't mention. Some are universa…"

"I lie back. They've "refurbished" the room. I loathe the word, its blunt sound (as if someone with a cold were trying…"

"The eye covers distances in a second. It lusts for freedom. Looking out, I often wanted to be free - not of home, but…"

"Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open was now unnecessa…"

"I ... take a selfie with him; two, to be safe. My lips are parted, as if I'm poking a dead thing to see if it'll come…"

"‘Internationalism’ is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership ...’"