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• No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana...
• This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places,…
• Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.
• The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
• I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.
• I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
• I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.
• I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
• New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every…
• The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.
• We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.
• When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as…

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