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1 " It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the shins one afternoon because you helped an old lady across the road in the morning. "
― Sathnam Sanghera , Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
2 " Like so many interactions in the Sikh community, the encounter will end in a kind of wrestling match, with one person trying to thrust money on the other, the other refusing to accept, and both people ending up offended and possibly physically bruised by the other's persistence. "
― Sathnam Sanghera , The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies
3 " It is because you have loved me that I know how to love others "
4 " It's easier to be brave on paper than in person "
5 " the way in which the wealthy are respected over the educated or the happy is one of the most irritating things "
6 " He became so educated that he went insane "
7 " we have been conditioned into communicating with a certain degree of intimacy and distance "
8 " the Prince of Wales, went on a series of imperial tours, being greeted by a banner at Aden in 1921 which declared: ‘TELL DADDY WE ARE ALL HAPPY UNDER BRITISH RULE’. "
9 " ...Mum's monologues are like ocean liners, they require time to change direction... "
10 " ...few things about our family life are simple, and the re-established closeness has come pickled in guilt. "
11 " ...we are members of the same family, bookends of the same set of siblings... "
12 " Trader, The Owner, The Slave by James Walvin. "
13 " He could have been anyone. Or no one "
― Sathnam Sanghera
14 " But it turned out you could actually lose yourself quite silently, as if it were nothing "
― Sathnam Sanghera , Marriage Material
15 " She wondered whether her main mistake in life had been confusing desire for romance with desire for solitude "
16 " the defining characteristic of Punjabi women, after all, is self-sacrifice "
