3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge (Day 1)

So, I've been nominated for the 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge by Pallavi Dwivedi (Check her out at https://ultimatelibrophile.wordpress.com/), a fellow Humanities kid at Lilavatibai Podar High School.

THE THREE RULES
1. Thank the person who nominated you.
2. Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day).
3. Nominate three new bloggers each day.

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Thank you, Pallavi!! :) 
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QUOTE FOR DAY #1

"...Krishna touches my hand. If you can call it a hand, these pinpricks of light that are newly coalescing into the shape of fingers and palm. At his touch, something breaks, a chain that was tied to the woman-shape crumpled on the snow below. I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable- but I always was so, only I never knew it! I am beyond name and gender and the imprisoning patterns of ego. And yet for the first time, I'm truly Panchaali. I reach with my other hand for Karna- how surprisingly solid his clasp! Above us our palace awaits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space. its floor is sky, its centre everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome. dissolving and forming and dissolving again like fireflies in a summer evening."
- Panchaali, 'A Palace Of Illusions' (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni)

In her retelling of the Mahabharata, Chitra Banerjee Divakruni captures the very essence of Draupadi's being: her dynamicity. This quote, at the very end of the book, brings with it a very fitting sense of fulfillment for a conclusion- Draupadi, though no longer a part of this world, never ceased to remain ever-changing. Also, the end gives me hope- perhaps it is true, that in the end, we always get what we've wished for with all our hearts.
I'd like to nominate the following people today:
Abhay Almal (http://www.romancingwords.wordpress.com/)
Aditi Gandhi (http//:https://theoldnotebook.wordpress.com/)
Aranya Johar (https://syncintoreality.wordpress.com/)

Comments

  1. Unknown18 November 2015 at 13:26

    Reading Panchali from a teenagers perspective... interesting :)

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