"The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands, and it seemed that..."
- Mohsin Hamid
"In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being."
- Aysha Taryam
"Some people are so much heaven to the square inch that life is simply hell, when she leaves you in order to go south for the winter. (Yes, women are people too, sometimes even threee.)"
- Will Advise
"I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other side didn’t quite register as Pakistan, or not-India, but rather as some mythic ..."
- Aanchal Malhotra
"This Heart at Peace is My Homeland. (Su Shih)"
- Sung Yee Poon
"You can leave your place you are sitting at without leaving that place either by playing music or by listening to music! Music is a migration to the unknown!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
"A bracing wind swirls about the boy and alights gently upon his shoulder to gape frightfully at droplets of fate joined infirmly to a sweep of atmospheric and lunar forces far beyond their capabilitie..."
- Ashim Shanker
"Now we’re guests in a faraway land nearly 40 years on. No trees, no cool breeze, no best friends. Only endless days spent in sending SMSs..."
- Nabeel Philip Mohan
"You are...the embodimentof immediate good karma.The equalizer between bottomfeeders and the sanctimoniouscogs in the system."
- G.A.P. Gutierrez
"[Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad veils whose beds our kin must tuck in misty-eyed."
- Armineonila M.