Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
I grew up in India during the 1960s and ’70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were vegetarians. The rest of us enjoyed eating – on special occasions – chicken or fish or mutton. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps, but in the differences that thrive behind settled, more clear-cut divisions. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi’s father. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
An Obedient Father’ is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote ‘The God of Small Things.’ Amitava Kumar Read Quote
The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I’m not interested in answering that question. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
