Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction ….

People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do, and I say, look-to be in my pos….

May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen ….

Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water can have it..

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

Excitement always leads to tears..

I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives ….

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 ….

And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside..

corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fa….

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that..

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….

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment..

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy..

If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon..

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….

Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse ….

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth..