Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? Aravind Adiga More Quotes by Aravind Adiga More Quotes From Aravind Adiga Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - ''possessive'', even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his fetus, but you know his corpse. Only you can complete the story of his life, only you know why his body has to be pushed into the fire before its time, and why his toes curl up and fight for another hour on earth. Aravind Adiga fighting mother father 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. Aravind Adiga color sitting book Any good society survives on a circulation of favours. Aravind Adiga favour circulation 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. Aravind Adiga men way world Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian democracy for a few years but she also was the woman who had defeated Pakistan in war at a time when most male politicians in India had secretly feared fighting that war, so that here in India even today Indira Gandhi is called by Indian nationalists the only man ever to have governed India. Aravind Adiga powerful mother war 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. Aravind Adiga heroism india government 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. Aravind Adiga routine office fun Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out. Aravind Adiga miracle struggle book In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism. Aravind Adiga reading writing trying These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh. Aravind Adiga winning country people I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere. Aravind Adiga disaster country 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. Aravind Adiga luxury space cities Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. Aravind Adiga columbia language study The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy. Aravind Adiga trustworthiness servant economy India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world. Aravind Adiga wall india broken 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. Aravind Adiga ribs work-out india The coop is guarded from the inside. Aravind Adiga guarded 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. Aravind Adiga socialist-countries cities country 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. Aravind Adiga four cities grandfather I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.) Aravind Adiga listeners thinker originals
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