In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, an….

If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're se….

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and dep….

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not he….

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs ….

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed..

A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived wit….

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers..

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again..

Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose n….

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs….