Even Quote by Amitava Kumar

People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is writing a…

— Karan Mahajan

There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the world as…

— Karan Mahajan

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

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

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

— Vikas Swarup

“Some forms of Indian asceticism, although not all, have a socio-political dimension and these cannot be marginalized as merely the wish to negate life.”

— Romila Thapar

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

— Kiran Desai

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

— Vikram Seth

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian,…

— James Welch

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small…

— Aravind Adiga

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

— Sherman Alexie

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