Diaspora Quote by Kiran Desai Download Open image “The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.” — Kiran Desai ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diaspora Immigration Indian Lucky Wonderful Wonderful place Writing
Members of India's diaspora, living in distant lands of the world, my good wishes to all of you. You may be far away from… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me in retrospect that I wrote as much as I did with full-time jobs. Each city gave me a new distance… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Our diaspora has an important role in building bridges between India and the world. — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented,… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“How could anything be the same? The red of blood lay over the market road in slick pools mingled with a yellow spread of… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity -- oh,… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized.… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“Biju stepped out of the airport into the Calcutta night, warm, mammalian. His feet sank into dust winnowed to softness at his feet, ad… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“That very afternoon the police arrived at Cho Oyu in a line of toad-colored jeeps that appeared through the moving static of a small… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me.” — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
“I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between. ” — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Food in general is really important for any diaspora, and it's really important for Korean people. This was a connection my mom and I… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
Eliminate the Diaspora, or the Diaspora will surely eliminate you. — Ze'ev Jabotinsky Copy Share Image
I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image