Harper’s Bazaar Man, Oct 2010, Dr Farish Noor’s interview,

“…in Kashmir, after the earthquake of 2005, I met an old woman in her smashed-up ruins of a house, crying as she was cooking. She was crying because that morning her eldest son died in a freak motorcycle accident. His head was crushed by a lorry and we could not identify the body. The woman was crying but she still had to cook for her other children; life had to go on, despite the earthquake that destroyed her home and ruined their lives. That taught me the power of the human spirit and of its capacity to cope with tragedy. Till today, I think of this woman and how much more she has suffered. That usually shuts me up and tells me to just endure and get on with things.”