Indian - Writer | March 17, 1963 -
Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.
Amitava Kumar
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Each employed immigrant has his or her place of work. It is only the taxi driver, forever moving on wheels, who occupies no fixed space. He represents the immigrant condition.
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If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens.
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I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.
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I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.
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It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.
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Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.
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When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.
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Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world.
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Any real piece of writing is an act of courage.
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I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were vegetarians. The rest of us enjoyed eating - on special occasions - chicken or fish or mutton.
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A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie.
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