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The coop is guarded from the inside.
Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.
If only a man could spit his past out so easily.
A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.
You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.
Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free
Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.
I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.
I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open
It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.
The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.
Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.
We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.
A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.
The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave
Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?
I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.
Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.
I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.
You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.
In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me
Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.
Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.
In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.
In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.
If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.
But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.
Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?
...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.
When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the west, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read. Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.
What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India safe is just the courage of poor Indians, not the actions of its government.
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 slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.
When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.
It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not true at all any more. It's one of the world's fastest growing and most vibrant markets for books, especially in English.