Gift Quote by Amitava Kumar Download Open image “Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.” — Amitava Kumar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gift Great Indian Journalism Writing
Hindi journalism is too dogmatic. I often wonder how it can be modernised. — Ravish Kumar Copy Share Image
Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I like doing Marathi films. I am not too keen on Hindi TV shows. It's very tough to get Hindi films, but if a… — Amruta Khanvilkar Copy Share Image
When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come. — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group,… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps,… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?' — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes.… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Here I am, 11 years old, and these grown men have to give it everything they have to beat me. In one part of… — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
What a gift it would be if every child in the country could hear a professional orchestra at least once. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
“ving self and others is an every second of every day of every week, of every month, of every year gift that should not be taken for granted or withdrawn for petty arguments and misunderstandings. No one knows the day nor the hour that we or a loved one will meet our expiration here on this earth. Time to make… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share
Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
“Falling in love is easy. Fools fall in love all the time. Staying in love is the test of time and the gift you… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
“I believe that our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there's a gain. Sometimes we're so blinded by the… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
“To reproduce your life is to convert it into tangible products for the benefit of humanity. To reproduce your life is to impact the… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life; gifted with hopes to succeed.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
“The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men — who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
