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Excerpts from Good to be God by Tibor Fischer

"Religion never has to deliver, it only has to promise to deliver." "The pork chop is simply done, but it's so good, so unimprovable, it's terrifying and unnatural. It's as if I've been waiting twenty years to eat it. […
Excerpts from Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf

My friend Lee leant me this book, which talks of the London through which we promenade. For me, the character developments of the nasty, bitter, wronged, politically contrary, religious, dour, ugly Miss Kilman and of the…
Excerpts from Looking through Glass by Mukul Kesavan

'Nineteen forty-one. [ . . . ] . . . nineteen forty-one we were counted. Thousands of census officers counted millions of Muslims, then they added us up, check their totals and announced that there were eight crores of…
The love that eats away at your soul

A passage from Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: '[A]nd she was constantly seeking grounds for her discontent. She blamed him for everything she had to bear. The agonising state of suspense in which she lived in Moscow, Kare…
Excerpts from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (tr. Rosemary Edmonds)

n"Himmlisch ist's, wenn ich bezwugen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nicht gelungen, Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!"* *"Splendid if I overcome My earthy passion, But if I succeed not, Still I have kno…
Extracts from Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

'Such messages were enough to lift my spirits for several days. Perhaps this strikes you as an exaggeration. But you must understand that in Lahore, at least when I was in secondary school - youngsters here, like everywh…
Excerpts from The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi

'Shahid was reminded of his uncle Asif, a journalist in Pakistan, who liked to assert that the only people who spoke good English now were subcontinentals. "They gave us the language but it is only we who know how to use…
'Everywhere on earth - in Britain, in India, in distant Lilliput - people were obsessed by the subject of success in America. Neela was a celebrity back home simply because she had gotten herself a good job - "made it bi…
Excerpts from Fury by Salman Rushdie

The protagonist of this novel I picked up simply because it was available at the Market Deeping library, which is generally short of anything that comes within the realm of literature, is called Solly Solanka. My first e…
Excerpt from Moth Smoke (by Mohsin Hamid)

 sat in my apartment and looked out over the city, and I just didn feel any passion to write about the place. I didn give a damn about local politics, I wasn moved about the issues. I missed home. And I was frustrat…