Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul. — 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
