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
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
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
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and… — 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India… — 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. Inside that… — Aravind Adiga 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
You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping. — Aravind Adiga 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 the mountains,… — Aravind Adiga 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 by lines… — 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 its short… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“When it comes to work - hurry, hurry, hurry. When it comes to payment - delay, delay, delay. Caste, religion, family background nothing. Talent… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“There was a fierce jam on the road to Gurgaon. Every five minutes the traffic would tremble - we'd move a foot - hope… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
