“ In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being. Aysha Taryam
“ History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. Ellsworth Huntington
“ When this flood blocks the road I am worried more by my soil getting washed, than by getting late to reach my destination. Suman Pokhrel
“ Charles Martel’s victory at the Battle of Tours in 732 is recognised for having prevented the spread of Islam throughout Europe. Douglas Murray
“ All sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out i… Mohsin Hamid
“ You can leave your place you are sitting at without leaving that place either by playing music or by listening to music! Music is a migration to the unknown! Mehmet Murat ildan
“ When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say. Jeanette Winterson
“ But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll never truly be at home again. What you've left behind exists only in memor… Claire Messud
“ Mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother tongues, violated privacies, untr… Salman Rushdie
“ The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands, and it seemed that… Mohsin Hamid
“ The fury of those nativists advocating wholesale slaughter was what struck Nadia most, and it struck her because it seemed so familiar, so much like the fury of the militants in her own city. She wond… Mohsin Hamid
“ Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the… Salman Rushdie
“ As we encounter each other, we see our diversity — of background, race, ethnicity, belief – and how we handle that diversity will have much to say about whether we will in the end be able to rise succ… Dan Smith
“ I have grown up listening to my grandparents’ stories about ‘the other side’ of the border. But, as a child, this other side didn’t quite register as Pakistan, or not-India, but rather as some mythic… Aanchal Malhotra
“ The UN has protocols on both 'smuggling people' and on 'trafficking in persons.' At meetings to discuss these laws, it became clear that 'trafficking' was the term used to discuss women and children,… Melissa Ditmore
“ Migration is often accompanied by a feeling of unavoidable disorientation, and the circumstances of 1947 would have pronounced this feeling. In most cases, it would have created an involuntary distanc… Aanchal Malhotra
“ Every time the train stopped at a station, we would all hold our breath, making sure not a single sound drifted out of the closed windows. We were hungry and our throats parched. From inside the train… Aanchal Malhotra
