“Like so many interactions in the Sikh community, the encounter will end in a kind of wrestling match, with one person trying to thrust money on the other, the other refusing to accept, and both people ending up offended and possibly physically bruised by the other's persistence.” AsianSikhPunjabi Book:The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton Source: The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton
“It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the shins one afternoon because you helped an old lady across the road in the morning.” HistoryMoralityImperialImperialismsm Book:Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain Source: Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain