"[I] wish for you only that the strange might never fail you, whatever it is, that gives us the strength to live on and on with our wounds."

-Samuel Beckett, letter, 1963

"We take our journey and clean the slate to zilch. Aryabhatta's life's work, ZERO, to our favourite shade: cream. The colour of peace, of changing fortunes."

"There is a moment in the making of handloom linen that most people will never see — when the shuttle passes through the warp and the weaver adjusts tension with the weight of his body, not a dial, not a machine. Just accumulated knowledge, translated through hands and feet into cloth."