Beggar Quote by Kiran Desai

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

— Anita Desai

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love…

— Yann Martel

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

People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is writing a…

— Karan Mahajan

India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype.…

— Shashi Tharoor

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

At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is…

— Aravind Adiga

Indians can identify with the Indian sensibilities, and rather than taking something from foreign films, it is always good to make a movie which…

— Asin

If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going…

— Ricky Schroder

India uses Bollywood, rather cinema, to tell its stories. It is one of the largest filmmaking nations in the world and so your talents…

— Sanam Saeed

The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You…

— A. R. Rahman

When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions. I saw…

— Pankaj Mishra