What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What… — Aravind Adiga Action Copy Share Image
You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are… — Aravind Adiga Demon Copy Share Image
I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in… — Aravind Adiga Castes Copy Share Image
Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the… — 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 India 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
“There is no end in India, Mr. Jiabao,as Mr. Ashok so correctly used to say. You'll have to keep paying and paying… — Aravind Adiga Money Copy Share Image
“When he caught his breath, he said, “My whole life, I have been treated like a donkey. All I want is that… — Aravind Adiga Life Copy Share Image
“People in this country are still waiting for the war of their freedom to come from somewhere else, from the jungles, from… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician… — 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 Devotion Copy Share Image
These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“And then he realized that the thing that was blocking his passage was cleared, and he was falling; his body had begun… — Aravind Adiga Mind Copy Share Image
“It is an ancient and venerated custom of people in my country to start a story by praying to a Higher Power.… — Aravind Adiga Higher power Copy Share Image
“So I stood around that big square of books. Standing around books, even books in a foreign language, you feel a kind… — Aravind Adiga Books 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
In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine,… — Aravind Adiga Fun 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 Brutal Copy Share Image
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read. Instead of which,… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind… — Aravind Adiga Business Copy Share Image
“The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is… — Aravind Adiga Business Copy Share Image
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with,… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city… — Aravind Adiga Cities Copy Share Image
“But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man,… — Aravind Adiga Abuse Copy Share Image
“We'll call you... Ram. Wait - don't we have a Ram in this class? I don't want any confusion, it'll be Balram.… — Aravind Adiga Krishna 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 Book Copy Share Image
Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though… — Aravind Adiga America Copy Share Image
In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need… — 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 Audience Copy Share Image
“Out of respect for the love of liberty shown by the Chinese people, and also in the belief that the future of… — Aravind Adiga Cell phone Copy Share Image
