"In India, there are real consequences to inattention;……" — Bharati Mukherjee
"In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot."
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Bharati Mukherjee
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21 Quotes by Bharati Mukherjee
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In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a…
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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I…
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My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I…
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What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
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I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I…
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The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really…
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Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously…
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I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in…
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I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate…
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There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive…
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Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I…
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