“He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him,… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them.… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West,… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world. — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
“Every day, on the roads of Delhi, some chauffeur is driving an empty car with a black suitcase sitting on the backseat. Inside that… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city. — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping. — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
“People in this country are still waiting for the war of their freedom to come from somewhere else, from the jungles, from the mountains,… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
“These people were building homes for the rich, but they lived in tents covered with blue tarpaulin sheets, and partitioned into lanes by lines… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
“And then he realized that the thing that was blocking his passage was cleared, and he was falling; his body had begun its short… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
“When it comes to work - hurry, hurry, hurry. When it comes to payment - delay, delay, delay. Caste, religion, family background nothing. Talent… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
“There was a fierce jam on the road to Gurgaon. Every five minutes the traffic would tremble - we'd move a foot - hope… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
“From the advertisement, his eyes moved up the skywalk, the zigzagging metal bridge that connected various locations in the neighborhood to the Banda train… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
“Even here, in the weight machine of a train station, they try to hoodwink us. Here, on the threshold of a man's freedom, just… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share
