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“Prabhakar was waiting for me at the bus station, smiling happily through the rain. He led me through the people gathered at the bus…

— Siddhartha Deb

“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many; one of…

— Guy de Maupassant

“The British ruled nineteenth-century India with unshakeable self-confidence, buttressed by protocol, alcohol and a lot of gall.”

— Shashi Tharoor

The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels.…

— Heinrich Heine

I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one,…

— Glen Duncan

“People – Americans, mostly – realise how attached they are to material comforts when they arrive in India.”

— Paul William Roberts

“The British succeeded. India deindustrialized, it ruralized. As the industrial revolution spread in England, India was turning into a poor, ruralized and agrarian country.…

— Noam Chomsky

“The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her…

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

“Fortunately, getting hold of people’s garbage was a cinch. Indian detectives were much luckier than their counterparts in, say, America, who were forever rooting…

— Tarquin Hall

“He went to India with his capital, and there, according to a wild legend in our family, he was once seen riding on an…

— Charles Dickens

“She looked beautiful. And sad. For she was leaving India, India of the heat and monsoons, of rice fields and the Cauvery River, of…

— Yann Martel

“All English stories get bogged down in whether or not the furniture is socially and aesthetically acceptable.”

— A.S. Byatt