Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, ….

it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people….

to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler….

India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are importa….