the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people..

Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able….

The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place..

Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew that for ea….

We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up, prideful intelligence has outst….

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideo….

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our li….

The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways more free because they are beyond the….

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism..

The writer is the midwife of understanding..

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politic….

Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely - unimpeded - around the world today is money... capital..

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relat….

India lives in several centuries at the same time..

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance..

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old….

Rahel’s toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could change the time whenever sh….

Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, glob….

One beach-colored. One brown. One Loved. One Loved a Little Less..

It's very easy for me to begin to believe the publicity about myself, whether for or against. It can give you an absurd idea of yourself. I know that….

As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of billionaires, is language. Langua….