Aravind Adiga

“Entrepreneurs are made from half-baked clay.”

— Aravind Adiga

I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

— Aravind Adiga

I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

— Aravind Adiga

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

— Aravind Adiga

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

— Aravind Adiga

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

— Aravind Adiga

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

— Aravind Adiga

Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free

— Aravind Adiga

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

— Aravind Adiga

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

— Aravind Adiga

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

— Aravind Adiga

“I am a self-taught entrepreneur. That’s the best kind there is, trust me.”

— Aravind Adiga

“What good is winning a battle, if you don't even realise there's a war going on?”

— Aravind Adiga

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

— Aravind Adiga

“But I complain about the police the way the rich complain; not the way the poor complain. The difference is everything.”

— Aravind Adiga

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

— Aravind Adiga

“An Indian Revolution? No Sir. It won't happen. People in this country are still waiting for the war of their freedom from…

— Aravind Adiga

Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is…

— Aravind Adiga

“Being called a murderer: fine, I have no objection to that. It's a fact: I am a sinner, a fallen human. But…

— Aravind Adiga

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and…

— Aravind Adiga

Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved…

— Aravind Adiga

“Even here, in the weight machine of a train station, they try to hoodwink us. Here, on the threshold of a man's…

— Aravind Adiga

“When it comes to work - hurry, hurry, hurry. When it comes to payment - delay, delay, delay. Caste, religion, family background…

— Aravind Adiga

“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

A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was…

— Aravind Adiga

“I thought, What a miserable life he's had, having to hide his religion, his name, just to get a job as a…

— Aravind Adiga

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

“He shook his head, but I kept flattering him, telling him how fine his beard was, how fair his skin was (ha!),…

— Aravind Adiga

“Incidentally, sir, while we're on the topic of yoga - may I just say that an hour of deep breathing, yoga, and…

— Aravind Adiga

“It is an ancient and venerated custom of people in my country to start a story by praying to a Higher Power.…

— Aravind Adiga

“These people were building homes for the rich, but they lived in tents covered with blue tarpaulin sheets, and partitioned into lanes…

— Aravind Adiga

Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored…

— Aravind Adiga

“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

“Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political parties, who think that…

— Aravind Adiga

“Out of respect for the love of liberty shown by the Chinese people, and also in the belief that the future of…

— Aravind Adiga

“Just because drivers and cooks in Delhi are reading Murder Weekly, it doesn't mean that they are all about to slit their…

— Aravind Adiga

“Every day, on the roads of Delhi, some chauffeur is driving an empty car with a black suitcase sitting on the backseat.…

— Aravind Adiga

“The Light and the Darkness both flow in to Delhi. Gurgaon, where Mr. Ashok lived, is the bright, modern end of the…

— Aravind Adiga

“He read me another poem, and another one - and he explained the true history of poetry, which is a kind of…

— Aravind Adiga

“There was a fierce jam on the road to Gurgaon. Every five minutes the traffic would tremble - we'd move a foot…

— Aravind Adiga