I stand by what I write and follow through on what I write..

Excitement always leads to tears..

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive -….

Human rights takes history out of justice..

Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time when the United States waged ….

As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he….

As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is bes….

America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just th….

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can ….

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century..

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be la….

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And….

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb..

Humans are animals of habit..

The UID is a corporate scam which funnels billions of dollars into the IT sector.

The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has redu….

He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious..

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us..

Her grief grieved her. His devastated her..

India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fibe….

In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer i….