Books Quote by Margaret MacMillan

“retelling of India’s political history as I have experienced it. The Dramatic Decade is the first of a trilogy; this book covers the period…

— Pranab Mukherjee

There's much about the British Raj which I think is disreputable. It was rapacious; it was a sort of kleptocracy, and it was also…

— Michael Portillo

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

— Stanley Wolpert

Many Anglo-Indians who had lived through the last days of the Raj were old, and I felt it was important to meet them and…

— Karan Kapoor

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

— Salman Rushdie

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 grew up watching Ritwik Ghatak, Satyajit Ray and Mirnal Sen's works in my youth, which was a very turbulent phase in Bengal's history.

— Saswata Chatterjee

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

In India, too many people do not write memoirs, but Natwar Singh and P. C. Alexander did.

— Sanjaya Baru

I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the…

— Pankaj Mishra

People didn't know much about Rajiv because unfortunately, he wasn't successful and that's the saddest part. He was a wonderful human being - warm…

— Randhir Kapoor

When I thought of writing for Rajini sir, I told myself it will be a really cool character with a very happy-go-lucky attitude. We…

— Karthik Subbaraj