Everything you draw is influenced. It's like yogurt. You need a little bit to start the next batch. — Sarnath Banerjee Bits Copy Share Image
The only way one can display learning is by playing with it. Because the truth is that there's something embarrassing about displaying… — Sarnath Banerjee Annoying Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in, and not capable of, direct politics. What I can do - I try to figure out the underlying… — Sarnath Banerjee Can do Copy Share Image
People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with. Because the characters I come up with are basically combinations… — Sarnath Banerjee Certain Copy Share Image
As a non-western artist, you have to ask yourself a question fairly early in your life: do I want to become a… — Sarnath Banerjee Art Copy Share Image
The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet… — Sarnath Banerjee Cafes Copy Share Image
Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers;… — Sarnath Banerjee Books Copy Share Image
There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in… — Sarnath Banerjee Audience Copy Share Image
My books serve as archives of thoughts and emotions, like a tonal history that captures how I felt at a certain time… — Sarnath Banerjee Archives Copy Share Image
I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking… — Sarnath Banerjee Can do Copy Share Image
People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details… — Sarnath Banerjee Big events Copy Share Image
I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in… — Sarnath Banerjee Behavior Copy Share Image
I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom… — Sarnath Banerjee Book Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult to relate to India's new middle class. This very patriotic and neoliberal group that mixes religion and… — Sarnath Banerjee Class Copy Share Image
I think it's really good not to get published. It sounds crazy but it's true. People want to get published very soon,… — Sarnath Banerjee Bits Copy Share Image
India has sanctioned phenomenal injustices for years and years and years. And normalized it. There is no understanding of what it means… — Sarnath Banerjee Born Copy Share Image
What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's… — Sarnath Banerjee Charlatans Copy Share Image
It's not my intention to be understood. I will continue writing for a readership that is fundamentally local. Because if you want… — Sarnath Banerjee Aspect Copy Share Image
