Aravind Adiga Quotes

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• Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with…
• Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.
• I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.
• Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of…
• Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
• The coop is guarded from the inside.
• We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in,
• India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.
• In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
• In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops…
• At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important…
• 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 slice…
• 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…
• I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was…
• I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)
• I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.
• I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
• Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read…
• An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal…
• Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the…

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