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“They had nationalities even: Thai eggplant, Chinese eggplant, Italian eggplant. The United Nations of eggplants terrified me because I knew the oblong purple vegetable as baingan, brinjal in English, and I could cook it in five different ways. Would this exotic brinjal still yield to my hands?”

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Book:The Radiance of a Thousand Suns

Source: The Radiance of a Thousand Suns

“I could travel back in time, way back, when at a home with too many mouths to feed, love was a constant accompaniment to each spare meal. …. With my food, I could recall the person I used to be. Before everything changed.”

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Book:The Radiance of a Thousand Suns

Source: The Radiance of a Thousand Suns

“In Manhattan, brown men were either cab drivers or Wall Street bankers, immigrants or expatriates, the gulf between them as wide as a skyscraper was tall.”

Brown Manhattan Immigrant Experience Immigrant Fiction

Book:The Radiance of a Thousand Suns

Source: The Radiance of a Thousand Suns

“The CIA has a great reputation and a terrible record. It relies on machines, not men, to understand the other side. They counted Soviet weapons with spy satellites but never figured that in the meantime communism was crumbling. They poured billions into Afghanistan to give the Russians their Vietnam – which they did, only by ending up breeding an entirely new menace, the Islamic jihadis. They claimed the existence of WMD in Iraq and provided a war-mongering President with a pretext for war. Want me to go on?’ Harry snorted.”

Intelligence Spy Cia Jihad

Book:The Hunt for Kohinoor

Source: The Hunt for Kohinoor

“With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn't even take him to Heaven.”

Love Force Heaven Hell Pathan

Book:The Hunt for Kohinoor

Source: The Hunt for Kohinoor