Class Quote by Arundhati Roy

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

The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I…

— Chetan Bhagat

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

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.

— Kiran Desai

I find it very difficult to relate to India's new middle class. This very patriotic and neoliberal group that mixes religion and economics together.…

— Sarnath Banerjee

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

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

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is…

— M. F. Husain

It's amazing to me in retrospect that I wrote as much as I did with full-time jobs. Each city gave me a new distance…

— Karan Mahajan

It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount…

— Michael Dorris

It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.

— Johnny Van Zant