“Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and the boundary between what was in your mind and what was in the world beyond was blurry, so blurry there was almost no boundary at all.”
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Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani-British writer born in Karachi in 1971. His works often explore themes of globalization, identity, and modernity. Hamid's debut novel, 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist,' published in 2001, received widespread acclaim and earned him numerous awards. His other notable works include 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia' and 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'. more
“Your unhappiness is the gap between what you feel you deserve and what you get.”
“Concealed was the terrible dark reality, whispering to the soul.”
“The beautiful thing about fear this large is that nobody will look beyond it”
“There is nothing under the moon that is not subject to change.”