Altered Quote by Shekhar Kapur

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

— Salman Rushdie

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian,…

— James Welch

We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer…

— Chris Eyre

What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge. If I…

— Karan Bajaj

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

Left to myself, I would only play an Indian. But the reality was that there were hardly any Indian characters I could play in…

— Sarita Choudhury

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

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 have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.

— George Crook

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

— Ariel Dorfman

I feel very fortunate that I was able to be cast in roles that showed the humanity, if you will, of usually stereotypical Indian…

— Wes Studi

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not…

— Jhumpa Lahiri