a | "A son who will never be older than his i motherland - neither older nor younger. There shall be two heads - but you will only see one - there will be knees and a nose, a nose and knees." | i | A Suitable Boy |
b | "That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much." | ii | Midnight's Children |
c | "She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Niwas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show), she was Veena's love of music, Pran's asthma, Maan's generosity, [...] temperament of Bhaskar's grandchildren. Indeed, for all the Minister of Revenue's impatience with her, she was his regret." | iii | The God of Small Things |
d | "Two or three years after the 1947 Partition, it occurred to the governments of India and Pakistan to exchange their lunatics in the same manner as they had exchanged their criminals. The Muslim lunatics in India were to be sent over to Pakistan and the Hindu and Sikh lunatics in Pakistan asylums were to be handed over to India." | iv | "Toba Tek Singh" |
a | Uriah Heep | i | James Joyce |
b | Stephen Dedalus | ii | Ivan Turgenev |
c | Bazarov | iii | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
d | Raskolnikov | iv | Charles Dickens |