Everything you draw is influenced. It's like yogurt. You need a little bit to start the next batch.

- Sarnath Banerjee

I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in a lot of imaginative effor…

- Sarnath Banerjee

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

- Sarnath Banerjee

I find it very difficult to relate to India's new middle class. This very patriotic and neoliberal group that mixes religion and economics together. …

- Sarnath Banerjee

The only way one can display learning is by playing with it. Because the truth is that there's something embarrassing about displaying heavy knowledg…

- Sarnath Banerjee

India has sanctioned phenomenal injustices for years and years and years. And normalized it. There is no understanding of what it means to be born in…

- Sarnath Banerjee

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't want to challe…

- Sarnath Banerjee

What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's no knowing truth. Truth seekers…

- Sarnath Banerjee

I'm not interested in, and not capable of, direct politics. What I can do - I try to figure out the underlying principles. I'm interested in the psyc…

- Sarnath Banerjee