Old lady Quote by Merlin Franco

We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative individuals who…

— 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

In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been…

— Orhan Pamuk

“It remains the professional Orientalist's job to piece together a portrait, a restored picture as it were, of the Orient or the Oriental; fragments,…

— Edward W. Said

When I sold my first middle-grade novel in 2005, it wasn't that common to put an author photo on the back flap, but 24-year-old…

— Jenny Han

“Some individuals came right out and accused me of being a Neo-Orientalist (in a pejorative Edward Said sense of the term). So of course…

— Waswo X Waswo

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap…

— Hari Kunzru

“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

While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in microscopic detail,…

— Edward S. Curtis

“To categorize some people as indigenous and others as alien, to argue about the identity of the first inhabitants of the subcontinent, and to…

— Romila Thapar

“Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.”

— David duChemin

“When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of my essays,…

— Chinua Achebe