It's OK just to be a writer, who writes about the society in which he lives and the issues that most important. Now how can that not be a writer, it ….

Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their scr….

When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A foolish jewelled bride. Her si….

Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia, ….

If you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked. "Does what count?" "The happiness does it count?". She knew exactly what he meant, h….

India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity..

Delhi is a very maligned city, and deservedly so. Yet there's something about it. It's a secret city, it doesn't hang out its wares. It's like a very….

The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution..

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us..

Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?.

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunn….

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalis….

The only thing worth globalizing is dissent..

I don't think the state will allow people to occupy a particular space unless it feels that allowing that will end up in a kind of complacency, and t….

I firstly don't think of myself as an activist, I never have. I always say that, I think this word "activist" is relatively recent one. I don't remem….

India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition..

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart..

Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had ….

Acceptance spells death to a writer..

What's a country? It's just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it with nuclear bo….

It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons,….