A memoir for me means a person’s life story; if I was going to write my actual life story, I would condense this entire marriage into a footnote. - Meena Kandasamy

The literary world must take a stand [to stop Bloomsbury publishing the book]. This is not about cancel culture. This is about defending literature from fascism. This is about standing up against religious divide, hate speech, islamophobia and false history.

Love is not blind, it just looks in the wrong places.

I have been in an abusive marriage. Violence can come from love, from a very intimate person. Violence can come from all sorts of crazy situations. What are you going to do? You have to deal with it when it strikes.