Family Quote by Neel Mukherjee

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of…

— Anita Desai

Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion of any…

— Amitava Kumar

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

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

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

The soul of India lives in its villages.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially those as…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

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

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

— Sanjaya Baru

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

— Zane Grey

I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener…

— Mark Twain

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