It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language. — Aravind Adiga Amazing moment Copy Share Image
I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere. — Aravind Adiga Been Copy Share Image
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave — Aravind Adiga Beautiful Copy Share Image
I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city. — Aravind Adiga Back Copy Share Image
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in… — Aravind Adiga Awe Copy Share Image
The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy. — Aravind Adiga Bases Copy Share Image
Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence. — Aravind Adiga Animal Copy Share Image
Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? — Aravind Adiga Behinds Copy Share Image
“Who would have thought, Mr. Jiabao, that of this whole family, the lady with the short skirt would be the one with… — Aravind Adiga Family Copy Share Image
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres.… — Aravind Adiga Centre Copy Share Image
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich… — Aravind Adiga Dream Copy Share Image
“The Great Socialist himself is said to have embezzled one billion rupees from the Darkness, and transferred that money into a bank… — Aravind Adiga Aravind-adiga Copy Share Image
“If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and… — Aravind Adiga Democracy Copy Share Image
If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them.… — Aravind Adiga Corners Copy Share Image
“There is no end in India, Mr. Jiabao,as Mr. Ashok so correctly used to say. You'll have to keep paying and paying… — Aravind Adiga Money Copy Share Image
I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in… — Aravind Adiga Castes Copy Share Image
Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the… — Aravind Adiga Crosses Copy Share Image
“I watched him walk behind the bamboo bars. Black stripes and sunlit white fur flashed through the slits in the dark bamboo;… — Aravind Adiga Mind Copy Share Image
Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this… — Aravind Adiga Country Copy Share Image
“These people were building homes for the rich, but they lived in tents covered with blue tarpaulin sheets, and partitioned into lanes… — Aravind Adiga Broken glass Copy Share Image
“It is an ancient and venerated custom of people in my country to start a story by praying to a Higher Power.… — Aravind Adiga Higher power Copy Share Image
Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples… — Aravind Adiga Devotion Copy Share Image
“People in this country are still waiting for the war of their freedom to come from somewhere else, from the jungles, from… — Aravind Adiga Every man Copy Share Image
Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men,… — Aravind Adiga Boys Copy Share Image
I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician… — Aravind Adiga Beats Copy Share Image
“In a socialistic economy, the small businessman has to be a thief to prosper.” — Aravind Adiga Economics Copy Share Image
India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world. — Aravind Adiga Broken Copy Share Image
You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are… — Aravind Adiga Demon Copy Share Image
“The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor - they never overlap, do they? See, the poor dream all… — Aravind Adiga Dream Copy Share Image
What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What… — Aravind Adiga Action Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was… — Aravind Adiga Cities Copy Share Image
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout… — Aravind Adiga Billions Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this… — Aravind Adiga Book Copy Share Image
Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is… — Aravind Adiga Complain Copy Share Image
Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.… — Aravind Adiga Beautiful Copy Share Image
