Air Quote by Anita Desai

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

— Salman Rushdie

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to…

— Anonymous

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the…

— Jim Jarmusch

To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes,…

— Neel Mukherjee

I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.

— George Crook

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge…

— Don DeLillo

“struck him as a favorable contrast with his own nation that there was no slavery in India;II and that though the population was divided…

— Will Durant

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 don't think of the characters as nationalities. I do not live in India. Playing people from different backgrounds, including Indians, comes easily to…

— Sarita Choudhury

The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally…

— David Selbourne

The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and…

— E. M. Forster

The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

— Jay Asher