Sreekala Sivasankaran Quotes

'IMAGINE A BOOK, EVERY PAGE OF WHICH WOULD BE BANNED BY ONE NATION OR ANOTHER... IMAGINE A BOOK THAT WOULD BE BANNED BY ALL NATIONS... IMAGINE, THAT WOULD BE CLOSER TO TRUTHS' --SREEKALA SIVASANKARAN

'The written has been lost as mud in the water. The unwritten too is lost from the life of memory. For once I realise that life and death can be interchangeably used' ~Sreekala Sivasankaran

We are in a web of lies. We can only try and understand our location in it. ~ Sreekala Sivasankaran

We do not all read a book in the same manner. It is our consciousness that reads the book. If the book moves ahead of us, we will be far behind. Sometimes we fall off from its path and abandon the book itself and then recover it by others' reading. There are books that move forward and backward. And books that hook us on a shaft and rotate with us. Still others will be tremendously polyphonic. If we don't have a foundation of pluralism and co-existence in our consciousness, it will seem like an uncomfortable noise to us. Yet again, there are some who provide us with parallel texts, intersecting, diverging and curving paths, which open up within the innermost recesses of our minds and shake up the entire reading experience. ~ Sreekala Sivasankaran

'Follow the music, it takes us to so many mixes...making familiarity in seemingly unfamiliar terrains' ~ Sreekala Sivasankaran

'Homelessness is not just about houses, people, places, nations and nationalities; it is also about being emotionally and spiritually ransacked, wounded in mind and spirit' ~ Sreekala Sivasankaran

'Every new writer realizes that many assumptions about language are inadequate. What is the most effective language should be an ongoing quest—its essence may lie somewhere in the sum of writing, living, and so on.The journey towards it is also the journey of languages' ~ Sreekala Sivasankaran

'Don't analyse the colours. I am painting the leftovers' ~ Sreekala Sivasankaran

'What is the big deal if you are a writer? I asked myself yesterday. No big deal at all. Just as mean or just as fine a human activity, with all the vices and voices that characterize the human world. For a while, it would give you a sense of an identity, a release, an outcry and then again it is a continuing reality of recurring hue and cry regarding life as a suspect' Sreekala Sivasankaran

I can paint faces. But do you have the courage to look into the face? Sreekala Sivasankaran