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Amitava Kumar Quotes

Indian - Writer | March 17, 1963 -

Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition.

Identity Writing Important Fiction

It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.

Politics Writing Political Literature

Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.

Imagination Better Possibilities Sure

Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.

Criticism Act Ought Judicious

A long, negative review I wrote of Rushdie's novel 'Fury' earned me a rebuke from the writer: He told an administrator at the college where I teach, and who had invited Rushdie to come speak, that he wouldn't share the stage with me.

College Me Negative Speak Long

For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.

People Distance Comfortable Left

No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry.

Tolerance Civilization Capable Each

Muslim anger has, of course, been stoked by America's war in Iraq and by Israel's brutal policies toward Palestine and Lebanon.

Anger War America Israel Been

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 organized politics.

Politics Organized Suspicion English

Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.

World Escape Save The World Writer

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

Great Writing Gift Journalism Well

My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

Past Me Reality Outside Always

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