Family Quote by Aravind Adiga

““When it comes to work - hurry, hurry, hurry. When it comes to payment - delay, delay, delay. Caste, religion, family background nothing. Talent everything.””

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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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“People in this country are still waiting for the war of their freedom to come from somewhere else, from the jungles, from the mountains,…

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“And then he realized that the thing that was blocking his passage was cleared, and he was falling; his body had begun its short…

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