Books Quote by Shashi Tharoor

“my grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I learnt Bengali”.”

— Fahmid Hassan Prohor

“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

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

— Zane Grey

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

I've been greatly influenced by the music of R.D. Burman and Sudhin Dasgupta, and I took it as a challenge to bring back the…

— Jeet Gannguli

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 the 1930s the eminent historian Will Durant wrote, “Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and…

— Anonymous

“The Bengali tends to run to brains rather than brawn and does not take kindly to the discipline and order of a hard life;…

— Manoshi Bhattacharya

I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to 'Slumdog Millionaire'…

— Shekhar Kapur

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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 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