25 quotes found
Writer · Indian · 1969
Indian writer (born 1969)
“It's, All in fashion.”
“The creative hopeless.”
“The second, first thought.”
“All, I find is Google. #iampm”
“All, I find is Google. #iampm”
“When, while, while when you walk.”
“Unlike his compatriots - many of whom were still, in their mid-twenties, adolescent posturers, doomed to futility - he had an engaging earnestness about him. Unlike them, he realized his incomplete...”
“The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans is as absurd & dangerous a fant...”
“In the best day.”
“No camouflage.”
“There lives a man, who is too small for his own brain." #iampm”
“You, don't hook everywhere. #iampm”
“As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than th...”
“In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.”
“National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceiv...”
“In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.”
“The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.”
“If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.”
“Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.”
“Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.”
“For, to be woken up at five in the morning by the devotional treacle of Anup Jalota, Hari Om Sharan and other confectioners, all of them simultaneously droning out from several different cassette p...”
