Anita Desai sums it all up in two sentences:

 

"We 

are 

all 

in 

this 

together, 

this 

world 

of 

loss 

and 

defeat.

㊌ 

All of us, 

every 

one 

of us, 

has had 

a moment 

when a window opened, 

when we caught a glimpse 

of the open, sunlit world beyond, 

but all of us, 

on this bus, 

have had that window 

close 

and remain closed."

Anita

Desai

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