"Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The……" — Aravind Adiga
"Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India."
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Aravind Adiga
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55 Quotes by Aravind Adiga
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Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.
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I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.
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Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense…
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Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
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The coop is guarded from the inside.
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We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in,
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India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the…
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In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were…
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In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and…
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At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from…
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Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people…
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Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls…
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