I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony. — Neel Mukherjee Attracted Copy Share Image
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule. — Neel Mukherjee Remember Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia,… — Neel Mukherjee Good Copy Share Image
“Why did they all think alike? Typical bourgeois brainwashed homogeneity? How else could this unvarying calculus abouth the worth of one's own… — Neel Mukherjee Lives of others Copy Share Image
Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he… — Neel Mukherjee Hands Copy Share Image
In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any… — Neel Mukherjee Dinner party Copy Share Image
The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a… — Neel Mukherjee Bestseller Copy Share Image
Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find… — Neel Mukherjee American Copy Share Image
I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary… — Neel Mukherjee Books Copy Share Image
Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to,… — Neel Mukherjee Business Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer. — Neel Mukherjee Book Copy Share Image
The Naxalite revolution - an ultra-left Maoist movement - in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the late 1960s provides one strand… — Neel Mukherjee Late Copy Share Image
“Being a Bengali, one is surprised when all the endless spume and froth of talk suddenly reveals itself to be the front… — Neel Mukherjee Bengali Copy Share Image
Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on… — Neel Mukherjee Back Copy Share Image
I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently. — Neel Mukherjee Books Copy Share Image
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel… — Neel Mukherjee Begun Copy Share Image
I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about… — Neel Mukherjee Circumstances Copy Share Image
I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing… — Neel Mukherjee Books Copy Share Image
To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to… — Neel Mukherjee Books Copy Share Image
To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of… — Neel Mukherjee Family Copy Share Image
Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious… — Neel Mukherjee Caste Copy Share Image
India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too… — Neel Mukherjee Day Copy Share Image
It's always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don't read their reviews… — Neel Mukherjee Always Copy Share Image
I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish… — Neel Mukherjee Bad Copy Share Image
Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in… — Neel Mukherjee Book Copy Share Image
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed… — Neel Mukherjee Freedom Copy Share Image
