Indian - Writer | March 17, 1963 -
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps, but in the differences that thrive behind settled, more clear-cut divisions.
Amitava Kumar
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I am an artless serf of Cupid.
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Inequality reigns in horrifying ways, and not everyone can even read, but the world of media and advertising withholds very little from the imagination of the dispossessed.
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India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians.
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One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.
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'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God of Small Things.'
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Novels describe what it means to be alive at a given moment.
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When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her 'good name' was. I think she'd heard that I had married a Muslim. When my wife said, 'Mona Ahmed Ali,' the lady looked at me and exclaimed, 'Oh, so you've married a terrorist.'
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The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I'm not interested in answering that question.
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Governance in India comes in the iron-clad armour of bureaucracy. Anyone in uniform considers it his or her right that we regard them as some sort of deity.
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We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group, to bargain for more power or cynical advantage.
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In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens.
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