… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage..

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America..

Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our live….

History is really a study of the future, not the past..

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons..

Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of und….

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined..

Today, the Indian government is trying to present privatization as the alternative to the state, to public enterprise. But privatization is only a fu….

Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated h….

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something..

Corporations that are turning over these huge profits can own everything: the media, the universities, the mines, the weapons industry, insurance hos….

Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away..

In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards are no longer the old c….

If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win..

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me..

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world..

Use your art to fight..

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear..

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened.

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their wo….