For me to say that all novels in English written by Indians are all alike would be a bit like saying that… — Amitava Kumar Alike Copy Share Image
I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning. — Amitava Kumar Enjoy Copy Share Image
I have a couple of thick files about things that have gone wrong between people; I ought to write about them in… — Amitava Kumar People Copy Share Image
Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way. — Amitava Kumar Bad Copy Share Image
I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at… — Amitava Kumar Festivals Copy Share Image
In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely… — Amitava Kumar Criticism Copy Share Image
For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian. — Amitava Kumar Indian Copy Share Image
In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions. — Amitava Kumar Immigrants Copy Share Image
You ask a politician a question, like, why they ran in an election, and you'll hear, I assume, something about wanting to… — Amitava Kumar Community Copy Share Image
I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity… — Amitava Kumar Art Copy Share Image
I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say. — Amitava Kumar Children Copy Share Image
Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion… — Amitava Kumar Even Copy Share Image
Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished. — Amitava Kumar Beautiful Copy Share Image
In the way in which we are living in a much more explosive and more tension-filled society, a society that is driven… — Amitava Kumar Cinema Copy Share Image
Hemingway's short story 'Hills Like White Elephants' is a classic of its kind. It illustrates Hemingway's 'iceberg theory,' which requires that a… — Amitava Kumar Find Copy Share Image
It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political. — Amitava Kumar Literature Copy Share Image
I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life. — Amitava Kumar Books Copy Share Image
I have to tell you, when I hear the song 'Jiya ho Bihar ke Lala,' I want to throw the history books… — Amitava Kumar Books Copy Share Image
The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I'm not interested in answering that question. — Amitava Kumar Gets Copy Share Image
In 1997, Alain de Botton published his book 'How Proust Can Change Your Life.' I was charmed by it. I remember using… — Amitava Kumar Books Copy Share Image
Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from… — Amitava Kumar Authenticity Copy Share Image
I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I… — Amitava Kumar American Copy Share Image
