Hari Kunzru

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their…

— Hari Kunzru

Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a…

— Hari Kunzru

“I wanted to store the world and play it back just as I’d found it, without change or addition.”

— Hari Kunzru

“I've seen some very bad things this year, most of them when I was distracted. The world comes at me when I'm…

— Hari Kunzru

“People want to get back to the source. The old school. They want things they can touch.”

— Hari Kunzru

When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to…

— Hari Kunzru

“Duhovna sloboda sveta direktno zavisi od politicke slobode Indije. Molimo Vas da stavite nesto sitinine u kasu. Posle tri cetvrti sata gubi…

— Hari Kunzru

“You're too old to be saying to me, as you did recently, that you weren't 'interested in politics'. You're lucky that politics…

— Hari Kunzru

As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics…

— Hari Kunzru

I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that…

— Hari Kunzru

“Ti uspešni ljudi, muškarci i žene, bili su obučeni u ansamble grafitnosive i tamnoplave boje, kao simbole pouzdanosti i poštenja. To vidno…

— Hari Kunzru

“Driving was almost the only thing that felt natural in America. It was traditional. It was patriotic . When you accelerated, you…

— Hari Kunzru

“What if one were to want to hunt for these hidden presences? You can’t just rummage around like you’re at a yard…

— Hari Kunzru

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

— Hari Kunzru

“We are a family whose roots are more like aerials. We pick up signals from the air around us - ideas, affinities,…

— Hari Kunzru

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people…

— Hari Kunzru

Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone…

— Hari Kunzru

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times,…

— Hari Kunzru

“People always look aroused when they’re acting violently.”

— Hari Kunzru

Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.

— Hari Kunzru

“I don't know what will happen in the future. Maybe my worries are unfounded, but lately I've been hearing talk that sounds…

— Hari Kunzru

Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it…

— Hari Kunzru

“He had the polite yet aggressive air of a man who enjoys competitive racket sports.”

— Hari Kunzru

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

— Hari Kunzru

But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's…

— Hari Kunzru