"Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived……" — Aravind Adiga
"Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country."
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55 Quotes by Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga has 55 quotes on this site.
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Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being…
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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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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
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But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition,…
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My biggest disappointment was, of course, the coup attempts, ... The economy was proceeding very well, but in 1989 we…
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They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to…
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Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase…
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Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
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