It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging. — Amitava Kumar Damaging Copy Share Image
If the 20th century was marked by travel - planes in flight - then the events of 9/11 ushered in the age… — Amitava Kumar 20th century Copy Share Image
Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading… — Amitava Kumar American Copy Share Image
My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world… — Amitava Kumar Faith Copy Share Image
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption. — Amitava Kumar Consumption Copy Share Image
Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely. — Amitava Kumar Books Copy Share Image
In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about… — Amitava Kumar Ignorant Copy Share Image
I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me… — Amitava Kumar Come Copy Share Image
The radio stations will happily recycle a badly worded statement by a politician all day but will steer clear of broadcasting more… — Amitava Kumar Day Copy Share Image
Much of what we regard as truth in the war on terror is actually rather suspect. — Amitava Kumar Actually Copy Share Image
In 'Bombay-London-New York,' I speak of the ways in which the 'soft' emotion of nostalgia is turned into the 'hard' emotion of… — Amitava Kumar Hard Copy Share Image
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I… — Amitava Kumar Become Copy Share Image
One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father. — Amitava Kumar Childhood Copy Share Image
A wonderful innovation of the Occupy Wall Street movement was the use of the human microphone - the name given to the… — Amitava Kumar Body Copy Share Image
What is said by the person holding a megaphone inciting a crowd, or what is said by someone who incites a rumour?… — Amitava Kumar Crowd Copy Share Image
Each employed immigrant has his or her place of work. It is only the taxi driver, forever moving on wheels, who occupies… — Amitava Kumar Immigrant Copy Share Image
If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens. — Amitava Kumar Heart Copy Share Image
I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative. — Amitava Kumar Criticism Copy Share Image
I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you… — Amitava Kumar Always Copy Share Image
What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered. — Amitava Kumar Between Copy Share Image
Muslim anger has, of course, been stoked by America's war in Iraq and by Israel's brutal policies toward Palestine and Lebanon. — Amitava Kumar America Copy Share Image
No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry. — Amitava Kumar Civilization Copy Share Image
When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her 'good… — Amitava Kumar Getting married Copy Share Image
