The coop is guarded from the inside..

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….

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 ta….

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language..

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, ….

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 col….

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in..

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.

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 di….

Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of l….

I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart to see him suffer like this - but where my….

Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into ….

Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free.

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted..

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English..

A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind th….

Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspe….

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us..

I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere..

I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.).

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence..