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It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

You were looking for the key for years, but the door was always open.

The coop is guarded from the inside.

My whole life have been treated like a donkey. All I want is that one of mine - at least one - should live like a man.

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

But I complain about the police the way the rich complain; not the way the poor complain.
The difference is everything.

We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

I am not an original thinker - but I am an original listener.)

But without a family, a man is nothing.

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

Sardonic, seriocomic saga of the plight of India's poor.

In a socialistic economy, the small businessman has to be a thief to prosper.

Vishram is a building like the people living in it, middle class to its core. Improvement or failure, it is incapable of either extremity.

I was never born and I will never die; I do not hurt and cannot be hurt; I am invincible, immortal, indestructible.

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

What good is winning a battle, if you don't even realise there's a war going on?

What a fucking joke.

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

They remain slaves because they can't see what is beautiful in this world.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

Who would have thought, Mr. Jiabao,
that of this whole family, the lady with the short skirt would be the one with
a conscience?

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Entrepreneurs are made from half-baked clay.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.