The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen. — Aravind Adiga Body Copy Share Image
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell. — Aravind Adiga Books Copy Share Image
Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out. — Aravind Adiga Adversity Copy Share Image
I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere. — Aravind Adiga Countries Copy Share Image
I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.) — Aravind Adiga Creativity Copy Share Image
I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere. — Aravind Adiga Been Copy Share Image
“But I complain about the police the way the rich complain; not the way the poor complain. The difference is everything.” — Aravind Adiga Aravind-adiga Copy Share Image
A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop. — Aravind Adiga Future Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. — Aravind Adiga Said Copy Share Image
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books — Aravind Adiga Book 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 Columbia Copy Share Image
Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping. — Aravind Adiga Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I am a self-taught entrepreneur. That’s the best kind there is, trust me.” — Aravind Adiga Business 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 Centre 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 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
“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 Revolution Copy Share Image
Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is… — Aravind Adiga Antithesis Copy Share Image
“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 Democracy 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
“These people were building homes for the rich, but they lived in tents covered with blue tarpaulin sheets, and partitioned into lanes… — Aravind Adiga Broken glass Copy Share Image
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 Brother 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
“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 put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart… — Aravind Adiga Behinds 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
“Out of respect for the love of liberty shown by the Chinese people, and also in the belief that the future of… — Aravind Adiga American business 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 Education Copy Share Image
“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 Community 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
“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 Aravind-adiga Copy Share Image
“Every day, on the roads of Delhi, some chauffeur is driving an empty car with a black suitcase sitting on the backseat.… — Aravind Adiga Chauffeur Copy Share Image
“He read me another poem, and another one - and he explained the true history of poetry, which is a kind of… — Aravind Adiga History Copy Share Image
“The Light and the Darkness both flow in to Delhi. Gurgaon, where Mr. Ashok lived, is the bright, modern end of the… — Aravind Adiga Books Copy Share Image
