It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language. — Aravind Adiga Amazing moment Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy. — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in… — Aravind Adiga Awe Copy Share Image
I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city. — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave — Aravind Adiga Beautiful Copy Share Image
We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in, — Aravind Adiga Coop Copy Share Image
“In a socialistic economy, the small businessman has to be a thief to prosper.” — Aravind Adiga Economics 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
“Sometimes I wonder, Balram. I wonder what's the point of living. I really wonder...' The point of living? My heart pounded The… — Aravind Adiga Humor Copy Share Image
“If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and… — Aravind Adiga Democracy Copy Share Image
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres.… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“The Great Socialist himself is said to have embezzled one billion rupees from the Darkness, and transferred that money into a bank… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich… — Aravind Adiga Dream 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 Beautiful 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
When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this… — Aravind Adiga Book Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you… — Aravind Adiga Islam Copy Share Image
Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this… — Aravind Adiga Country Copy Share Image
“I watched him walk behind the bamboo bars. Black stripes and sunlit white fur flashed through the slits in the dark bamboo;… — Aravind Adiga Mind Copy Share Image
With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and… — Aravind Adiga Bangles Copy Share Image
I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - ''possessive'', even. You know more about him… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“I guess, your Excellency, that I too should start off by kissing some god's arse. Wich god's arse, though? There are so… — Aravind Adiga Christianity Copy Share Image
Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men,… — Aravind Adiga Boys Copy Share Image
“From the advertisement, his eyes moved up the skywalk, the zigzagging metal bridge that connected various locations in the neighborhood to the… — Aravind Adiga Hell Copy Share Image
“Who would have thought, Mr. Jiabao, that of this whole family, the lady with the short skirt would be the one with… — Aravind Adiga Family Copy Share Image
Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence. — Aravind Adiga Animal 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
When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was… — Aravind Adiga Cities Copy Share Image
“The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor - they never overlap, do they? See, the poor dream all… — Aravind Adiga Dream Copy Share Image
