Audience Quote by Devdutt Pattanaik

My being Indian is possibly the biggest thing that influences my stories. Not just in terms of settings - most of the settings in…

— Vandana Singh

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'

— Vikas Swarup

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

— Ariel Dorfman

There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the…

— Pankaj Mishra

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's…

— Stephen Frears

We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative individuals who…

— Karan Mahajan

I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even…

— Dan Brown

When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first…

— Karan Mahajan

In India, people adhere to diverse cultures and traditions.

— M. K. Stalin

For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're…

— Paulo Coelho

There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the world as…

— Karan Mahajan

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same…

— Buchi Emecheta