The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors -… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony. — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule. — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
It's always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don't read their reviews at all.… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Why did they all think alike? Typical bourgeois brainwashed homogeneity? How else could this unvarying calculus abouth the worth of one's own kind measured… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author,… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists.… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
