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“I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.”

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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…

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Any real piece of writing is an act of courage.

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We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group,…

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For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation…

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The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

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My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

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“There is no point in fighting condescension with condescension.”

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We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps,…

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All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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