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..

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out..

Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?.

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city..

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when the….

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things..

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 mu….

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French..

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell..

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice ….

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 ….

Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and t….

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 q….

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughou….

Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations ….

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust ….

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world..

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking lik….

If only a man could spit his past out so easily..

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry ab….