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…

- Santha Rama Rau

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…

- Santha Rama Rau

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…

- Santha Rama Rau

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, …

- Santha Rama Rau