Bog je zamenjen Marksom, Satana buržoazijom, raj besklasnim društvom, a crkva partijom, dok su vrsta i cilj putovanja ostali slični. Trka s preponama, na čijem cilju čeka nagrada.

Arundhati Roy

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But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

Arundhati Roy

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With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.

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Some days he walked along the banks of the river that smelled of shit and pesticides bought with World Bank loans.

Arundhati Roy

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Звукът на слънцето, което изсушава прането. Прави белите спални чаршафи хрупкави. Втвърдява колосаните сарита. Кремаво-бели и златни.

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Бавният вентилатор на тавана режеше гъстия, изпълнен със страх въздух и го превръщаше в една безконечна спирала, която бавно се свличаше към пода, като обелена кора на безкраен картоф.

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His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

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Chacko marvelled at how someone so small and undefined, so vague in her resemblances,could so completely command the attention, the love, the sanity, of a grown man.

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There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

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(a) Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

(b) Cleverness didn't necessarily make a good prime minister.

(c) If a person couldn't even run a pickle factory profitably, how was that person going to run a whole country?

And, most important of all:

(d) All Indian mothers are obsessed with their sons and are therefore poor judges of their abilities.

Arundhati Roy

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