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 seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? - Kiran Desai
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?
- Kiran Desai
The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. - Kiran Desai
The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly. - Kiran Desai
Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.
This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinkin… - Kiran Desai
This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinkin…
A journey once begun, has no end - Kiran Desai
A journey once begun, has no end
Sadness was so claustrophobic. - Kiran Desai
Sadness was so claustrophobic.
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. - Kiran Desai
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. - Kiran Desai
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in… - Kiran Desai
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in…
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