Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books — Aravind Adiga Book 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
Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping. — Aravind Adiga Inspirational Copy Share Image
“What good is winning a battle, if you don't even realise there's a war going on?” — Aravind Adiga Battle Copy Share Image
The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen. — Aravind Adiga Body 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
“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
“When it comes to work - hurry, hurry, hurry. When it comes to payment - delay, delay, delay. Caste, religion, family background… — Aravind Adiga Family 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
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. — Aravind Adiga Said 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
Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is… — Aravind Adiga Complain 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
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 Class Copy Share Image
Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved… — Aravind Adiga Books Copy Share Image
“Even here, in the weight machine of a train station, they try to hoodwink us. Here, on the threshold of a man's… — Aravind Adiga Computers Copy Share Image
Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations… — Aravind Adiga Army Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, sir, while we're on the topic of yoga - may I just say that an hour of deep breathing, yoga, and… — Aravind Adiga Business Copy Share Image
“He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him,… — Aravind Adiga Half baked 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
“I thought, What a miserable life he's had, having to hide his religion, his name, just to get a job as a… — Aravind Adiga Funny Copy Share Image
A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was… — Aravind Adiga 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… — Aravind Adiga Broken glass 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
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
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 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
Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - ''possessive'', even. You know more about him… — Aravind Adiga Aravind-adiga 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“There was a fierce jam on the road to Gurgaon. Every five minutes the traffic would tremble - we'd move a foot… — Aravind Adiga Red light 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
The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy. — Aravind Adiga Bases Copy Share Image
