Please quote, a line, a sentence or paragraph from your favourite books, classics, novels, short stories or poems, so that you can share your literary interests with friends in EK. It can be on any subject of your choice, and hope this will encourage the reading habit among all members.
It will be very useful if the name of the book and the author are also mentioned.
Here we go….
“They were nearly born on a bus , Estha and Rahel. The car in which Baba, their father , was taking Ammu, their mother to hospital, broke down on the winding tea estate road to Assam. According to Estha, if they had been born on the bus, they would have got free bus rides for the rest of their lives. So the twins harboured a faint resentment against their parents for having diddled them out of a life time of free bus rides !
They also believed that if they were killed on a zebra crossing, the government would pay for their funerals. That was what zebra crossings were meant for. Free Funerals ! “
“THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS” A very witty but humane story of the poorer classes of India.
A delightful book, full of humour, which won the Booker Prize in 1997.
by Arundhathi Roy
It will be very useful if the name of the book and the author are also mentioned.
Here we go….
“They were nearly born on a bus , Estha and Rahel. The car in which Baba, their father , was taking Ammu, their mother to hospital, broke down on the winding tea estate road to Assam. According to Estha, if they had been born on the bus, they would have got free bus rides for the rest of their lives. So the twins harboured a faint resentment against their parents for having diddled them out of a life time of free bus rides !
They also believed that if they were killed on a zebra crossing, the government would pay for their funerals. That was what zebra crossings were meant for. Free Funerals ! “
“THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS” A very witty but humane story of the poorer classes of India.
A delightful book, full of humour, which won the Booker Prize in 1997.
by Arundhathi Roy



