Author: Githa Hariharan

Cites

• Italo Calvino (1)
  • IN: Almost Home (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Kublai Khan had noticed that Marco Polo's cities resembled one another, as if the passage from one to another involved not a journey but a change of elements. Now, from each city Marco described to him, the Great Khan's mind set out on his own, and after dismantling the city piece by piece, he reconstructed it in other ways, substituting components, shifting them, inverting them.
    FROM: Invisible Cities, (1972), Novel, Italy
• Devara Dasimayya (1)
  • IN: The Thousand Faces of Night (1992) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Suppose you cut a tall bamboo in two; make the bottom piece a woman, the headpiece a man; rub them together till they kindle: tell me know, the fire that's born, Is it male or female, O Ramanatha?
    FROM: vachana, (None), NULL, Kannada
• Jorge Luis Borges (1)
  • IN: When Dreams Travel (1999) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...we cannot examine dreams directly, we can only speak of the memory of dreams.
    FROM: NULL, (1977), NULL, Argentina
• Basava (2)
  • IN: In Times of Siege (2003) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If you risk your hand with a cobra in a pitcher will it let you pass?
    FROM: vachana, (None), NULL, India
• Zbigniew Herbert (1)
  • IN: In Times of Siege (2003) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: and if the City falls but a single man escapes he will carry the City within himself on the roads of exile he will be the City
    FROM: Report from the Besieged City, (1983), NULL, Poland