“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
“He read me another poem, and another one - and he explained the true history of poetry, which is a kind of… — Aravind Adiga History Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. — Aravind Adiga Said Copy Share Image
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city… — Aravind Adiga Cities Copy Share Image
“But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was… — Aravind Adiga Be a man 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
“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
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
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
“He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him,… — Aravind Adiga India 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
Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian… — Aravind Adiga Ambiguous 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
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with,… — Aravind Adiga Borrowed 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
These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it… — Aravind Adiga Beats Copy Share Image
I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.) — Aravind Adiga Creativity 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
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books — Aravind Adiga Book Copy Share Image
“I thought, What a miserable life he's had, having to hide his religion, his name, just to get a job as a… — Aravind Adiga Funny Copy Share Image
“So I stood around that big square of books. Standing around books, even books in a foreign language, you feel a kind… — Aravind Adiga Books Copy Share Image
A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was… — Aravind Adiga Aravind-adiga Copy Share Image
The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen. — Aravind Adiga Body 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 Copy Share Image
