No respectable Sikh family would buy art merely for its aesthetic qualities. - Shamini Flint

Singh could not help but think that, in a hospital, the proximity of death was best disguised — and the actual dead hidden. It was not conducive to the right frame of mind for recovery to have the morgue signposted for patients. It would be the medical equivalent of 'Abandon hope all ye who enter here'.

Temples are places of worship, not war. We should never have let separatists hole up in our gurdwaras.

Humanity was doomed, decided Singh, which made his job of hunting down individual murderers particularly pointless.