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“Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized about as a price for earning status, security, and financial freedom.”
― Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

“Millions of Indian housewives remain silent about the complete lack of sex in their marriage after the first child is born. Most husbands—modern, urban, educated, young, successful and independent—forget that their wives need sexual fulfilment as much as they do.”
― Shoma A. Chatterji, The Female Gaze: Essays on Gender, Society and Media

“Her gait was such that the fall of her sari acquired the rhythmic grace of the loom on which it was weaved.”
― B.S. Murthy, Benign Flame: Saga of Love