Bananas Quote by Hari Kunzru

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

— Vikram Seth

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

— Salman Rushdie

“This book does not try to “document” any particular aspect of Indian life. To me, doing such a thing would seem a pretentious and…

— Waswo X. Waswo

I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.

— Karan Mahajan

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small…

— Aravind Adiga

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with…

— Patricia Briggs

Indian epics are full of violence, and such stories have shaped India. As filmmakers, I don't think anyone in India would tone down violence,…

— S. S. Rajamouli

I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in…

— Salman Rushdie

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

— Hari Kunzru

When people stop some film from being shot or burn a book, it's not just that they are saying, this is against Indian culture.…

— Arundhati Roy

The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to…

— Karan Bajaj